Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden
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Recommended by 4 notable people, including Alexis Ohanian and Kara Swisher
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Cybersecurity, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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, twentynineyearold Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intellig...
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Recommended by 7 sources and appears in Cybersecurity, Most Recommended Books, and Politics.
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