Permanent Record
- Author Edward Snowden
- Narrator Holter Graham
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Run Time 11 hours and 32 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: historical, political and military, Biography and non-fiction prose, Computing and Information Technology, Control, privacy and safety in society, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Espionage and secret services, Human rights, civil rights, Information technology industries, Memoirs, Politics and government, Privacy and data protection, Society and Social Sciences, True crime.
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What to expect
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
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, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.
Critics Review
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Riveting, pacy
Financial Times -
The world’s most famous whistleblower
Guardian -
Fascinating
Observer -
A riveting account . . . Reads like a literary thriller
New York Times -
Gripping
Washington Post -
His disclosures of mass surveillance and bulk collection of personal information are as relevant now as they were in 2013
Guardian
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