Whistleblowing Nation: The History of National Security Disclosures and the Cult of State Secrecy
ISBN: 9780231550680
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
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Bringing together contributors from a range of disciplines, Whistleblowing Nation is a pathbreaking history of national security disclosures and state secrecy from World War I to the present. The contributors explore the complex politics, motives, and ideologies behind the revelation of state secrets that challenge the status quo.
Mistry Kaeten :

Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Waging Political Warfare: The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War, 1945-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and editor of "Reforms, Reflections and Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1947" ( Intelligence and National Security , 2011). His writing has appeared in Cold War History , Diplomatic History , and the Washington Post .Kaeten Mistry is senior lecturer in American history at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945-1950 (2014) and editor of Reforms, Reflections, and Reappraisals: The CIA and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1947 (2011).

Hannah Gurman is associate professor at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She is the author of The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond (Columbia, 2012) and editor of A People's History of Counterinsurgency (2013).

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