Research Catalog

Title

Shadow government : surveillance, secret wars, and a global security state in a single-superpower world / Tom Engelhardt.

Author

Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Greenwald, Glenn

Description

174 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized"--

Subject

• Intelligence service > United States
• Electronic surveillance > Government policy > United States
• National security > United States
• Internal security > United States
• Strategic culture > United States
• Secrecy > Political aspects > United States
• World politics > 21st century
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
• United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The shadow government's secret religion -- How the US intelligence community came out of the shadows -- How to be a rogue superpower -- Mistaking omniscience for omnipotence -- Definitions for a new age -- Why Washington can't stop -- Overwrought empire -- The Obama contradiction -- Destroying the planet for record profits -- A golden age for journalism -- Letter to an unknown whistleblower.

ISBN

• 9781608463657 (pbk.)
• 1608463656 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2014035837

OCLC

890792965

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library