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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEdward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower's secrets
Source: The Guardian
Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblowers secrets
In Permanent Record, the former spy will recount how his mass surveillance work eventually led him to make the biggest leak in history
Alison Flood
Thu 1 Aug 2019 14.09 BST Last modified on Thu 1 Aug 2019 14.10 BST
After multiple books and films about his decision to leak the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history, whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to tell his side of the story in a memoir, Permanent Record.
Out on 17 September, the book will be published in more than 20 countries and will detail how and why the former CIA agent and NSA contractor decided to reveal the US governments plans for mass surveillance around the world and in the US which included monitoring phone calls, text messages and emails.
UK publisher Macmillan said the book would see him bringing the reader along as he helps to create this system of mass surveillance, and then experiences the crisis of conscience that led him to try to bring it down.
Snowdens story has been already been tackled on film and in books. He was portrayed by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Oliver Stone film Snowden, which was adapted from Guardian journalist Luke Hardings book The Snowden Files. Journalist Glenn Greenwald, the source to whom he leaked his explosive story, recounted in his memoir No Place to Hide how he went to Hong Kong in 2013 to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have evidence of government spying. Snowden was also the subject of the 2014 documentary Citizenfour, directed by Laura Poitras, and the 2016 play Wild, a fictionalised take on his story.
Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country, said Macmillan chief executive John Sargent. He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private place for his actions.
In Permanent Record, the former spy will recount how his mass surveillance work eventually led him to make the biggest leak in history
Alison Flood
Thu 1 Aug 2019 14.09 BST Last modified on Thu 1 Aug 2019 14.10 BST
After multiple books and films about his decision to leak the biggest cache of top-secret documents in history, whistleblower Edward Snowden is set to tell his side of the story in a memoir, Permanent Record.
Out on 17 September, the book will be published in more than 20 countries and will detail how and why the former CIA agent and NSA contractor decided to reveal the US governments plans for mass surveillance around the world and in the US which included monitoring phone calls, text messages and emails.
UK publisher Macmillan said the book would see him bringing the reader along as he helps to create this system of mass surveillance, and then experiences the crisis of conscience that led him to try to bring it down.
Snowdens story has been already been tackled on film and in books. He was portrayed by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the Oliver Stone film Snowden, which was adapted from Guardian journalist Luke Hardings book The Snowden Files. Journalist Glenn Greenwald, the source to whom he leaked his explosive story, recounted in his memoir No Place to Hide how he went to Hong Kong in 2013 to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have evidence of government spying. Snowden was also the subject of the 2014 documentary Citizenfour, directed by Laura Poitras, and the 2016 play Wild, a fictionalised take on his story.
Edward Snowden decided at the age of 29 to give up his entire future for the good of his country, said Macmillan chief executive John Sargent. He displayed enormous courage in doing so, and like him or not, his is an incredible American story. There is no doubt that the world is a better and more private place for his actions.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/01/edward-snowden-memoir-to-reveal-whistleblowers-secrets-permanent-record
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Edward Snowden memoir to reveal whistleblower's secrets (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2019
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Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)1. Not interested.
I'll not be spending money on this one, but thanks for posting.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)2. Don't buy that book
Or, alternately, "Steal That Book," if you must. But don't fatten his bank account by buying it.
You can read the highlights in a book review or hear them on a broadcast account. These kind of books are rarely worth reading all the way through, anyway.
snowybirdie
(5,229 posts)3. So he's going
To give us a primer on how to be a traitor to your country and live in Putin's Russia happily ever after!
Me.
(35,454 posts)4. Ang Yet...He Sought Russian Help
Good of the country my behind. He wants the cash and is trying to become relevant again. I eagerly await his book on Russian surveillance and wonder if he's been a Russian asset all along and for how many of his 29 years.