Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 10/07/2014
ISBN: 9781608463657
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal 08/01/2015 pg. 42