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The Known Citizen - A History of Privacy in Modern America (Paperback)
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The Known Citizen - A History of Privacy in Modern America (Paperback)
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Loot Price R592
Discovery Miles 5 920
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A Washington Post Book of the Year Winner of the Merle Curti Award
Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize Winner of the Ralph Waldo
Emerson Award "A masterful study of privacy." -Sue Halpern, New
York Review of Books "Masterful (and timely)...[A] marathon trek
from Victorian propriety to social media exhibitionism...Utterly
original." -Washington Post Every day, we make decisions about what
to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the
boundary between one's private affairs and public identity has
become an urgent task of modern life. How did privacy come to loom
so large in public consciousness? Sarah Igo tracks the quest for
privacy from the invention of the telegraph onward, revealing
enduring debates over how Americans would-and should-be known. The
Known Citizen is a penetrating historical investigation with
powerful lessons for our own times, when corporations, government
agencies, and data miners are tracking our every move. "A mighty
effort to tell the story of modern America as a story of anxieties
about privacy...Shows us that although we may feel that the threat
to privacy today is unprecedented, every generation has felt that
way since the introduction of the postcard." -Louis Menand, New
Yorker "Engaging and wide-ranging...Igo's analysis of state
surveillance from the New Deal through Watergate is remarkably
thorough and insightful." -The Nation
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