The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America

by Sarah E. Igo

Book Overview

A Washington Post Book of the Year
Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award

"A masterful study of privacy."
--Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books

"Masterful (and timely)...[A] marathon trek from Victorian propriety to social media exhibitionism...Utterly original."
--Washington Post

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674244796
• ISBN13: 9780674244795
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"