The declassification engine what history reveals about America's top secrets
"Historian Matthew Connelly analyzes the millions of state documents both accessible to the public and still under review to unearth not only what the government does not want us to know, but what it says about the very authority we bequeath to our leaders. By culling this research and studying...
| Main Author: | Connelly, Matthew, 1967- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Should this book be legal?
- The radical transparency of the American republic: a re-introduction
- Pearl Harbor: the original secret
- The bomb: born secret
- Code making and code breaking: the secret of secrets
- The military-industrial complex: the dirty secret of civil-military relations
- Surveillance: other people's secrets
- Weird science: secrets that are stranger than fiction
- Following the money: trade secrets
- Spin: the flipside of secrecy
- There is no there there: the best kept secret
- Deleting the archive: the ultimate secret
- The end of history as we know it.