The War On Leakers: National Security and American Democracy, from Eugene V. Debs to Edward Snowden

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The War on Leakers joins the growing debate over surveillance and the national security state, bringing to bear the unique perspective of one of America's most respected diplomatic historians. Gardner examines how the government and media have grappled with national security leaks over nearly five decades, what the relationship of leaking has been to the exercise of American power during and after the Cold War, similarities and differences between leakers over time and the implications of all this for how we should think about the role of leakers in a democracy.

Lloyd C. Gardner is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including The Long Road to Baghdad, Three Kings, The Road to Tahrir Square, and Killing Machine, and a co-editor (with Marilyn B. Young) of The New American Empire and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam, all published by The New Press. He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.

Praise for The War on Leakers: "[An] engaging and thoroughly researched investigation." Booklist "[The War on Leakers is] well-written and tightly-argued. . . A worthwhile contribution to our ongoing national debate about the balance between national security and privacy and about the line between sedition and dissent." Kirkus Reviews Praise for Killing Machine: "Gardner's treatment of this brave new mode of presidential war-making is admirably comprehensive." Bookforum "Gardner delivers an engrossing blow-by-blow account of a decade of fierce debates and painful events that offer excruciating parallels with the Vietnam War." Publishers Weekly (starred review) Praise for Three Kings: "Gardner's meticulous review and perceptive analysis provides a rich background for understanding what is unfolding today, and is likely to persist." Noam Chomsky