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Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World Paperback – Illustrated, October 7, 2014

by Tom Engelhardt (Author), Glenn Greenwald (Foreword)

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In 1964, a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet, a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later, everything about that "invisible government" has grown vastly larger, more disturbing, and far more visible. In his new book, Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the sun: what is no longer, as in the 1960s, a national security state, but a global security one, fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized.

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Haymarket Books
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October 7, 2014
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1608463656
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"Tom Engelhardt is an iconoclast, but he also is the latest exemplar of a great American tradition. Like George Seldes and I. F. Stone before him, he has bypassed conventionally minded newspapers and magazines, and with his remarkable website and in books like this, found a way of addressing readers directly about the issues central to our time. Again and again, he goes to the heart of the matter, drawing on his awesomely wide reading, his knowledge of history, and his acute political radar system that uncovers small but deeply revealing nuggets of news and often makes me feel, enviously: how could I have missed that?”
—Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"This is a book about secrets and surveillance, but I'm here to tell you one secret its contents won't. For more than a dozen years, Tom Engelhardt and his website or blog or postnewspaper wire service Tomdispatch.com have been one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing. Tom himself, a legendary book editor, is also one of the country's most eloquent and tenacious political writers, electronically publishing three essays a week for all these years and writing many of them himself. This collection, focused on the new Orwellianism, is some of the finest writing and finest public service gathered together in book form for your portable pleasure and outrage."
—Rebecca Solnit, author, Men Explain Things to Me

"Tom Engelhardt is an iconoclast, but he also is the latest exemplar of a great American tradition. Like George Seldes and I. F. Stone before him, he has bypassed conventionally minded newspapers and magazines, and with his remarkable website and in books like this, found a way of addressing readers directly about the issues central to our time. Again and again, he goes to the heart of the matter, drawing on his awesomely wide reading, his knowledge of history, and his acute political radar system that uncovers small but deeply revealing nuggets of news and often makes me feel, enviously: how could I have missed that?”
―Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

"This is a book about secrets and surveillance, but I'm here to tell you one secret its contents won't. For more than a dozen years, Tom Engelhardt and his website or blog or postnewspaper wire service Tomdispatch.com have been one of the great forces on the side of clarity, democracy, openness, and really good writing. Tom himself, a legendary book editor, is also one of the country's most eloquent and tenacious political writers, electronically publishing three essays a week for all these years and writing many of them himself. This collection, focused on the new Orwellianism, is some of the finest writing and finest public service gathered together in book form for your portable pleasure and outrage."
―Rebecca Solnit, author, Men Explain Things to Me

About the Author

Tom Engelhardt created and runs the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, where he is a fellow. He is the author of The American Way of War and The United States of Fear, both published by Haymarket Books; a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the cold war, The End of Victory Culture; and of a novel, The Last Days of Publishing. He lives in New York.

Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for The Intercept and the author, most recently, of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Haymarket Books; Illustrated edition (October 7, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1608463656
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1608463657
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.3 inches

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R. Lemire

Please say it ain't so!

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019

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I gave it five stars because for me it was an exceptionally good read, right in my wheel house. Very Jason Borne, 007ish. That said I am a staunch conservative and find the information contained eye opening as well as very frightening. I have found it difficult to decide which wagon to hitch my horses to, the whistle blowers or the federal government. Good job Tom.

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Mammy Tilly

A must read for anyone wanting information on our many ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2015

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A must read for anyone wanting information on our many secret US governments running not only our country but the world. This answers what Edward Snow has told the public about the US government and why many nations are angry at the US. Obama has made this more powerful not less. We are living in what George Washington called "our American Empire, now rising" which is turning out to be a police empire.

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Metalmanxx

Eye opening

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2015

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Very insightful.
Full of historical FACTS that were either glazed over, or outright omitted in your school curriculum.
Eye opening, disturbing when you realize you were intentionally misled regarding historical FACTS that form ones early impressions of their countries benevolence, when the reality is actually more the opposite overbearing tyrannical, murderous in a ethnic cleansing sort of way.

Should be required reading.

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S. Freeman

A brief and highly enlightening examination of government surveillance of the American people

Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2015

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Excellent book. Engelhardt demonstrates we have moved from a "national security state" to a "national surveillance state". He also makes clear this has little to do with protecting U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, and everything to do with the government keeping track of EVERYONE 24/7/52. Realizing just how much the government spies on its own citizens, and how hard it endeavors to keep everyone under constant surveillance is both sad and depressing. But the ruling oligarchy, unfortunately, understands, as they keep appropriating an ever greater percentage of the nation's wealth into their insatiably greedy pockets, and the remainder of the nation sees their standard of living consistently slipping lower and lower, at some point, it is going to be more than riots in Ferguson over a police shooting of a Black man. When discontent becomes pervasive, as Americans begin to wake up and understand fully what is being done to them just so the rich can have it all, "we, the people", are likely to become even more rebellious than almost any time in our nation's history. Understanding that, the oligarchy wants to militarize the police and wants the state to be able to identify and eliminate any "trouble makers" before massive resistance can be organized. At that point, we become the fascist police state the oligarchy dreams of. The more people who read Engelhardt, and other authors such as Stiglitz (for example, The Cost of Inequality), Suskind (e.g., The Way of the World), Bacevich (e.g. Washington Rules or The Limits of Power), Kuttner (e.g. Debtors' Prison), Stuckler (e.g. The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills), Graeber (e.g. Debt: The First 5,000 Years); Klein (e.g. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism), Ravitch (e.g., Reign of Error), Blyth (e.g. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea), the better positioned we are to recognize the lies of Republicans in general, and "Democrats" like both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Once that happens, the possibility of meaningful change, of getting OUR country back on the track to genuine economic prosperity, and a rising standard of living begins to grow. Once the power of the oligarchy is broken, the "need" for the kinds of government surveillance Engelhardt discusses will cease to exist; and intelligence agencies and the police can return to the duties and responsibilities most Americans see as protecting and serving the people in general, those for whom they are supposed to work.

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J N Manning

Well worth reading

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019

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60 years ago the west criticised the Soviet Union for all the operations described in this book and which are now carried out by the USA.

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017

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Must read for all who care

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Fudd From Manhattan

Be Prepared to Have Nightmares

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2016

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Too bad I am limited to only five stars. Englehardt lays out a persuasive case for why we should be frightened indeed of a military-industrial-security-surveillance-intelligence state that far exceeds what Eisenhower feared in his 1961 speech. He describes a world of permanent war fed by constant fear where the only solution is military power and more surveillance. It's a brilliant book.

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Mark O.

A Broad Overview

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015

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I sometimes read tomdispatch.com and respect (and virtually always agree with) Tom's well-considered opinions. The same is true for this book. I found myself thinking along the lines of "oh, yes, I've thought that myself" quite often. I did expect this to be more in-depth in terms of reading about specific behind-the-scenes accounts of what we publicly see in the media every day. That wasn't there. The book didn't really reveal anything I didn't already know. This is more of a book-length essay, and later it became clear it's an amalgam of articles over a period of years. That's definitely ok, but it often results in a skimming the surface of various issues. If I had known that this was not a work on its own I may not have read it. I tend to avoid collections of this sort since the focus seems to be at a broader overview level rather than a concise focus on the subject matter. For those who do not follow the shenanigans of the NSA, government, et. al., this is a great introduction.

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Jack

A must

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2017

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An important book. If you are interested in America, this is a must read.

Kuriosity . K . Kat

Secrets of people in power.

Reviewed in Canada on August 21, 2015

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For me this book was an eye opener to the workings of how people are securing their overall wellbeing and peace of mind In an ever changing world. I have to wonder why we have to eliminate people with drones and strike forces. Anyways the book gets me thinking and wondering if it is really legal and so on and so forth.

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John Raymond Boulanger

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2017

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exellent read and downright scary !!

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Rod Howard

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K M Sinsheimer

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2015

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