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Private - Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History (Hardcover, New)
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Private - Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History (Hardcover, New)
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Please note: this book was written and published prior to Manning's
identification as Chelsea. Beginning in early 2010, Chelsea
Manning leaked an astounding amount of classified information to
the whistleblower website WikiLeaks: classified combat videos as
well as tens of thousands of documents from the war in Afghanistan,
hundreds of thousands from Iraq, and hundreds of thousands more
from embassies around the globe. Almost all of WikiLeaks’s
headline-making releases of information have come from one source,
and one source only: Chelsea Manning.
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Manning’s story is one of global significance, yet she remains an
enigma. Now, for the first time, the full truth is told about a
woman who, at the age of only twenty-two, changed the world.
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Though the overarching narrative in media reports on Manning
explain her leaks as motivated by the basest, most self-serving
intentions, Private paints a far more nuanced, textured portrait of
a woman haunted by demons and driven by hope, forced into an
ethically fraught situation by a dysfunctional military
bureaucracy. Relying on numerous conversations with those who know
Manning best, this book displays how Manning’s precocious
intellect provided fertile ground for her sense of her own
intellectual and moral superiority. It relates how a bright kid
from middle America signed on to serve her country and found
herself serving a cause far more sinister. And it explains what it
takes for a person to betray her orders and fellow troops—and her
own future—in order to fulfill what she sees as a higher purpose.
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Manning’s court-martial may be the military trial of the decade,
if not the century. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants
to understand the woman behind it all.
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