The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

by Edward Shils

Book Overview

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, and the agitation so wildly directed against the "enemy." "Brief...lucid...brilliant."-American Political Science Review. With an Introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156663105X
• ISBN13: 9781566631051
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"