0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Censorship

Buy Now

Secrets - The CIA's War at Home (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,064
Discovery Miles 10 640
Secrets - The CIA's War at Home (Paperback, New edition): Angus Mackenzie

Secrets - The CIA's War at Home (Paperback, New edition)

Angus Mackenzie; Foreword by David Weir

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 | Repayment Terms: R100 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

A muckraking adventure in the violation of First Amendment rights. Although it probably won't come as a surprise to most readers that the federal government is capable of spying on its citizens, Mackenzie professes a certain bewilderment at the lengths to which the CIA went to suppress dissent in the days of Vietnam. The veteran left-wing journalist, who died of brain cancer in 1994, began his career as the publisher of an antiwar rag called the People's Dreadnaught; harassed by campus police, he was forced to suspend publication, although he later won $2,500 in a lawsuit against Beloit College over the matter. At a national level, he writes, similar suppression was the order of the day. Although the CIA is constrained by law from conducting investigations "inside the continental limits of the United States and its possessions," in fact, Mackenzie charges, it concocted an elaborate counterintelligence program against various home-grown protest groups in the 19605 and early '705, reasoning that it was taking antiterrorist measures and thus living up to the spirit, if not the letter, of its charter. Among the targets, Mackenzie writes, was Ramparts, a venerable leftist magazine that managed to earn the wrath of the Feds by reporting on that very internal spying. Other targets were the libertarian gum Karl Hess, renegade CIA whistleblowers Victor Marchetti and Philip Agee, and a host of lesser-known dissidents. The CIA emerges as the heavy, naturally, but the real villains in Mackenzie's account are various policymakers from the Johnson administration to the present. "Incrementally over the years they expanded a policy of censorship to the point that today it pervades every agency and every department of the federal government," he writes. And, he continues, that change was so gradual that few guardians of the First Amendment noticed. Mackenzie is occasionally over the top, sometimes glib. But his charges ring true, and civil-liberties advocates will find much of interest in his pages. (Kirkus Reviews)
"If anything is more corrupting than power, it is power exercised in secret. Angus Mackenzie's magnificently researched, lucidly written study of the CIA's outrageous threats to freedom in America over the years is a summons to vigilance to protect our democratic institutions."--Daniel Schorr

"The late Angus Mackenzie has left an appropriate legacy in Secrets: The CIA's War at Home, a fitting capstone to his long career of exposing government secrecy and manipulation of public information. Secrets is a detailed, fascinating and chilling account of the agency's program of disinformation and concealment of public information against its own citizens."--Ben H. Bagdikian, author of "The Media Monopoly

"Scrupulously reported, fleshed out with a fascinating cast of characters, skillfully illuminating a subject the news media seldom looked into and never got straight, Angus Mackenzie's last and best work richly deserves a posthumous Pulitzer--for nonfiction, history, or both."--Jon Swan, former senior editor, "Columbia Journalism Review

"This courageous, uncompromising book belongs on the bookshelf of every serious student of journalism and the First Amendment."--Tom Goldstein, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University

General

Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 1999
First published: April 1999
Authors: Angus Mackenzie
Foreword by: David Weir
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 260
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-21955-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Espionage & secret services
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Censorship
Promotions
LSN: 0-520-21955-4
Barcode: 9780520219557

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Handbook on Academic Freedom
Richard Watermeyer, Rille Raaper, … Hardcover R5,550 Discovery Miles 55 500
The Man Who Hated Women - Sex…
Amy Sohn Paperback R574 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330
The Most Dangerous Man In The World
Andrew Fowler Paperback R603 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360
Areopagitica - A speech for the Liberty…
John Milton Hardcover R545 Discovery Miles 5 450
Secret Power - WikiLeaks and Its Enemies
Stefania Maurizi Hardcover R2,853 Discovery Miles 28 530
ZAT Zombie Apocalypse Training - How to…
Richard Flentge Hardcover R753 Discovery Miles 7 530
Donald J. Trump is kickin' @## on the…
Mansplainer Solzhenitsyn Cartman Hardcover R933 Discovery Miles 9 330
Zoon Garden - The Decline of a Nation
Jordan O'Donnell Hardcover R533 Discovery Miles 5 330
Freedom of Speech and the Function of…
Michael Donnelly Paperback R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620
Books against Tyranny - Catalan…
Laura Vilardell Hardcover R3,047 Discovery Miles 30 470
Fake News in Digital Cultures…
Rob Cover, Ashleigh Haw, … Hardcover R3,026 Discovery Miles 30 260
Media Controversy - Breakthroughs in…
Information Reso Management Association Hardcover R11,087 Discovery Miles 110 870

See more

Partners