Citizen Spies: The Long Rise of America's Surveillance Society

by Joshua Reeves

Book Overview

The history of recruiting citizens to spy on each other in the United States.

Ever since the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden, we think about surveillance as the data-tracking digital technologies used by the likes of Google, the National Security Administration, and the military. But in reality, the state and allied institutions have a much longer history of using everyday citizens to spy and inform on their peers. Citizen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479803928
• ISBN13: 9781479803927
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"