Books Details
Author : Edward Snowden Pages : 339 pages Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Language : eng ISBN-10 : 1250237238 ISBN-13 : 9781250237231
Books Descriptions
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government?s
system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including
how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In
2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with
the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States
government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text
message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass
surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six
years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this
system and why he was moved to expose it.Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of
his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent
Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online?a
man who became a spy, a
