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Bravehearts: Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden Hardcover – May 23, 2016

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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing—whether it's government spying, corporate murder or scientific scandal—the public benefits enormously. Wars are ended, deadly products are taken off the market, white-collar criminals are sent to jail. The whistleblowers themselves, however, generally end up ruined. Nearly all of them lose their jobs—and in many cases their marriages and their health—as they refuse to back down in the face of increasingly ferocious official retaliation. That moral stubbornness despite terrible personal cost is the defining DNA of whistleblowers. The public owes them more than we know.

In Bravehearts, Hertsgaard tells the gripping, sometimes darkly comic and ultimately inspiring stories of the unsung heroes of our time. A deeply reported, impassioned polemic, Bravehearts is a book for citizens everywhere—especially students, teachers, activists and anyone who wants to make a difference in the world around them.
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Mark Hertsgaard is a renowned investigative journalist and author of Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He has written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and Mother Jones, has appeared on numerous programs (including The Today Show, The Charlie Rose Show, The Rachel Maddow Show, NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition), and has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and dozens of other universities. He lives in San Francisco, California.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hot Books (May 23, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1510703373
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1510703377
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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  • Jilly Jakes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
    Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2018
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    Excellent! I thought this book might be over my head. It wasn't. The author conveyed information in lay persons terms. Super read!
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  • paul bersch
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2016
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    well written and fact filled very enjoyable
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  • Christopher Paul Winter
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book reveals an astonishing fact.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2016
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    In America, someone like Edward Snowden is legally forbidden to claim what's called the "public interest defense" in his trial. Think about that. Snowden cannot even mention his reasons for doing what he did. The only issue the court can consider is, did he or did he not provide classified information to people unauthorized to have it. Since he has never denied doing so, there is not even the possibility of acquittal. Serbia has better whistle-blower protection laws than America. Think about that, too.

    And Hertsgaard reports that the officials in charge, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama included, take a hard line on the matter. It's not hard to understand why Snowden won't return, despite the hardships of his exile.

    But there's more to the story. The U.S. has laws that are supposed to protect whistle-blowers, letting them "work within the system" to correct problems without suffering reprisals. Only those laws don't actually protect them. Hertsgaard tells us about five other CIA whistle-blowers who tried. For their trouble, they lost their jobs and their clearances, had their homes raided, one spent time in jail. The final judgment is still to come, but their story illustrates the pitfalls of trying to correct a wrong from the inside. Of course, it's an old story; Daniel Ellsberg faced similar obstacles fifty years ago.

    Hertsgaard makes it crystal clear that the government we have today is more concerned with protecting senior officials than the rights guaranteed by law to those who sincerely seek to correct the wrongs they discover. That makes this 164-page book a must-read; the more so because of the very consequential election that is almost upon us. It's also an easy read. If it had an index, I'd call it perfect.
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  • toddmilner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Should be Mandatory Reading
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016
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    A must read for every American. It's time that Whistleblowers be treated as the Patriots that they are and that the public starts thinking for theirselves and recognize to the degree that everything is overclassified as protection for the malfeasence of those in power. "Whistleblowers" are the people storming todays' beaches in our/the nations'/the citizenrys' interest. The hail of "gunfire" they face is this nations' legal system which leaves them in financial ruin after having found them, in so many cases,innocent but then barred from returning to their jobs and silently blacklisted from any other gainful employment, in short, left on the trash heap. It's to this nations' discredit that so many, an essential number, of the citizens so blithely and easily swallow the governments propaganda and allow the wrongs imposed on these people who truly support, and want to defend, the constitution as so many of them have sworn oaths to do.
    And what's sadly laughable is that all those who turn their backs on these "soldiers" and speak of them as criminals heap scorn and contempt on Barack Obama, the guy who, after having promised "Open Transparent Government", has mandated the prosecution of more of these Patriots than all other Presidents combined and pursued government intrusion and eavesdropping beyond the scope that George W. began. Once you cross that line.............
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Heard about this on Diane Rehm show but it does ...
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    Heard about this on Diane Rehm show but it does not write with the same authority as the interview led me to believe. It raises interesting points but very little first hand accounts, primary sources. Also, seems to make rather broad conclusions.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2016
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    wonderful and informative
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  • Dave S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2016
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    Hertsgaard reveals that Snowden revealed the secrets through the Guardian rather than face the consequences that two others faced by going through regular channels. A very good read about whistle blowing consequences and that many are not rewarded monetarily but only with the self satisfaction realization that they did the right thing.
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  • David Ramos
    5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting perspective on why Snowden did what he did.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2016
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    Great book -- really puts together history of famous and not-so-famous whistleblowers to give you a theory on why Snowden did what he did. It really makes you think about the Snowden revelations in a difference perspective. Definitely worth reading.
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  • maria
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brave indeed
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2020
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    An insight into the corruption and wrong doing of the powerful and rise brave enough to 'out' them. How whistle blowing helps mankind whilst very often ruining their own lives. I couldn't put this book down.
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  • John A.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gives great insight into a system that is in dire need ...
    Reviewed in Canada on January 29, 2018
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    Very well written and informative. Gives great insight into a system that is in dire need of public scrutiny.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Important reading
    Reviewed in Australia on January 11, 2018
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    A highly interesting book with the subject matter being crucial knowledge for humanity's safety. Please read this, research more and speak to any acquaintance who is willing to listen.
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  • Rohin Nagrani
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in India on July 16, 2016
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    An excellent unputdownable read.
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  • Donald Morgan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Quite good.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2018
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    Good subject but it could have been condensed. A good start for studying the subject. I would recommend it for certain.
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