An absolute must-read/must listen.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. The narration is excellent too, read by someone who seems to genuinely understand what he's reading, and to convey it 'from the heart'.
And it's detailed so clearly that someone without a technical background would still understand it. I've had a career in IT, so the technical stuff was of great interest to me. But he most certainly is the writing is superb, beautifully crafted, compelling stuff. That fact doesn't necessarily guarantee he's going to be a good writer. Snowden, I'm sure, was an extremely meticulous programmer/analyst/administrator. I had to replay several sections to make sure I wasn't hearing things.Truly scary stuff. But the details revealed in this book still made my jaw drop.
I followed his story carefully, watched interviews, watched Citizenfour, and the Stone movie. I imagine just about everyone on the planet knows the general gist of Edward Snowden's story and his place in history. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic. Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online – a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet’s conscience.
Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.
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