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Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines,
Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that challenge the status quo.
Sommario
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
1. The Paradox of National Security Whistleblowing: Locating and Framing a History of the Phenomenon, by Hannah Gurman and Kaeten Mistry
2. From Censorship to Classification: The Evolution of the Espionage Act, by Sam Lebovic
3. The Devil’s Advocate: Leonard B. Boudin, Civil Liberties, and the Legal Defense of Whistleblowing, by Julia Rose Kraut
4. Celebrity Hero: Daniel Ellsberg and the Forging of Whistleblower Masculinity, by Lida Maxwell
5. The Rise and Fall of Anti-Imperial Whistleblowing in the Long 1970s, by Kaeten Mistry
6. Winter Soldiers of the Dark Side: CIA Whistleblowers and National Security Dissent, by Jeremy Varon
7. From the Mundane to the Absurd: The Advent and Evolution of Prepublication Review, by Richard H. Immerman
8. The Public Sphere Hero: Representations of Whistleblowing in U.S. Culture, by Timothy Melley
9. Creating Uncertainty, Casting Doubt: U.S. Intelligence Leaks from Reform to Spyware for Sale, by Matthew L. Jones
10. Unfit to Print: The Press and the Contragate Whistleblowers, by Hannah Gurman
11. The Challenge of Journalism and the Truth in Our Times: James Risen, Judith Miller, and National Security Reporting, by Lloyd C. Gardner
Coda: Edward Snowden, National Security Whistleblowing, and Civil Disobedience, by David Pozen
Conclusion, by Kaeten Mistry and Hannah Gurman
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index
Info autore
Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Waging Political Warfare: The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor of “Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1947” (Intelligence and National Security, 2011). His writing has appeared in Cold War History, Diplomatic History, and the Washington Post.
Riassunto
Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that challenge the status quo.
Testo aggiuntivo
This is the first major anthology to treat whistleblowing as a historical and cultural phenomenon. The contributors use careful and broad-ranging examinations to detail the post-WWI relationship of the federal censoring apparatus to histories of democracy and democratic assumptions. The volume is extremely enlightening.
