New York Times Bestseller Edward Snowden, The Man Who Risked Everything To Expose The Us Government’s System Of Mass Surveillance, Reveals For The First Time The Story Of His Life, Including How He Helped To Build That System And What Motivated Him To Try To Bring It Down. In 2013, Twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden Shocked The World When He Broke With The American Intelligence Establishment And Revealed That The United States Government Was Secretly Pursuing The Means To Collect Every Single Phone Call, Text Message, And Email. The Result Would Be An Unprecedented System Of Mass Surveillance With The Ability To Pry Into The Private Lives Of Every Person On Earth. Six Years Later, Snowden Reveals For The Very First Time How He Helped To Build This System And Why He Was Moved To Expose It. Spanning The Bucolic Beltway Suburbs Of His Childhood And The Clandestine Cia And Nsa Postings Of His Adulthood, Permanent Record Is The Extraordinary Account Of A Bright Young Man Who Grew Up Online—a Man Who Became A Spy, A Whistleblower, And, In Exile, The Internet’s Conscience. Written With Wit, Grace, Passion, And An Unflinching Candor, Permanent Record Is A Crucial Memoir Of Our Digital Age And Destined To Be A Classic.

Permanent Record

From The Award-winning Author Of A People's Tragedy And Natasha's Dance, A Landmark Account Of What Private Life Was Like For Russians In The Worst Years Of Soviet Repression There Have Been Many Accounts Of The Public Aspects Of Stalin's Dictatorship: The Arrests And Trials, The Enslavement And Killing In The Gulags. No Previous Book, However, Has Explored The Regime's Effect On People's Personal Lives, What One Historian Called The Stalinism That Entered Into All Of Us. Now, Drawing On A Huge Collection Of Newly Discovered Documents, The Whisperers Reveals For The First Time The Inner World Of Ordinary Soviet Citizens As They Struggled To Survive Amidst The Mistrust, Fear, Compromises, And Betrayals That Pervaded Their Existence. Moving From The Revolution Of 1917 To The Death Of Stalin And Beyond, Orlando Figes Re-creates The Moral Maze In Which Russians Found Themselves, Where One Wrong Turn Could Destroy A Family Or, Perversely, End Up Saving It. He Brings Us Inside Cramped Communal Apartments, Where Minor Squabbles Could Lead To Fatal Denunciations; He Examines The Communist Faithful, Who Often Rationalized Even Their Own Arrest As A Case Of Mistaken Identity; And He Casts A Humanizing Light On Informers, Demonstrating How, In A Repressive System, Anyone Could Easily Become A Collaborator. A Vast Panoramic Portrait Of A Society In Which Everyone Spoke In Whispers—whether To Protect Their Families And Friends, Or To Inform Upon Them—the Whisperers Is A Gripping Account Of Lives Lived In Impossible Times.

All 2 books by Metropolitan Books

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Permanent Record

The Whisperers