Description
| Product ID: | 9781529035698 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Permanent Record |
| Subtitle: | A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower |
| Authors: | Author: Edward Snowden |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Memoirs, Espionage and secret services, Human rights, civil rights, Information technology industries, Privacy and data protection, Memoirs, Espionage & secret services, Freedom of information & freedom of speech, Information technology industries, Privacy & data protection |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Permanent Record is the essential and courageous memoir of Edward Snowden – the man who risked everything to expose the shocking mass surveillance used by governments across the world to spy on their own citizens. <p><b>The<i> Sunday Times</i> top ten bestseller.</b><br><br><b>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.</b><br><br>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. Here, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.<br><br>Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, <i>Permanent Record </i>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.<br><br><b>Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, <i>Permanent Record </i>is a crucial memoir of our digital age.</b><br><br><b>'A riveting account . . . Reads like a literary thriller' - <i>New York Times</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-03 |