Brian Hochman

Gebundenes Buch

The Listeners

A History of Wiretapping in the United States

Beschreibung

Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, confidence artists and security experts, police and presidents who made the wiretap a defining technology of American history.

Autor

Brian Hochman is Director of American Studies and Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology, which was a finalist for the American Studies Association's Laura Romero Prize for Best First Book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780674249288
• ISBN-10: 0674249283
• Artikelnr.: 62580947