NEW BOOKS on

POLITICAL FREEDOM & SECURITY

SNOWDEN
by Ted Rall

n this this new graphic novel, award-winning

political cartoonist Ted Rall delves into Edward
Snowdens early life and work experience, his personality, and the larger issues of privacy, new surveillance technologies, and government intrusion.
Ted Ralls Snowden is a dramatic, evocative,
thoughtful and very accessible account of one of
the most important stories of the centuryand
one of the most ominous, unless citizens are
roused to action to rein in abusive state power.
Noam Chomsky
Seven Stories Press TR 978-1-609-80635-4 224 pp. $16.95

SURVEILLANCE A-Z
by Danny Schechter

ased on fresh interviews with key players,

Surveillance A-Z offers cogent insight across the
full spectrum of surveillance culture, from WikiLeaks,
Manning, and Snowden to black world ops, from
SAPs and ECIs to VRKs, from Dan Ellsberg to
Thomas Drake and Bill Binney, from
the law to the technology to the reality.
Seven Stories Press TR 978-1-60980-643-9
272 pp. $16.95

OBJECTIVE TROY

A TERRORIST, A PRESIDENT, AND

THE RISE OF THE DRONE
by Scott Shane

bjective Troytells the story of Anwar al-Awlaki,

an American citizen involved in planning terrorist
operations for al-Qaeda, who was executed without
a trial. It follows Barack Obamas campaign against
the excesses of the Bush counterterrorism and
recounts how the president directed spy agencies
to hunt al-Awlaki. Illuminating and provocative, and
based on years of in-depth reporting, Objective Troy
is a reckoning with the moral challenge of terrorism
and a masterful chronicle of our times.
Scott Shane is unsurpassed in shedding clear light on Americas darkest secrets,
including the gripping human drama behind a drone strike that changed history.
Its a story that had to be told, and must be read. Jane Mayer
Tim Duggan Books HC 978-0-8041-4029-4 416 pp. $28.00

COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY

STUXNET AND THE LAUNCH OF THE
WORLDS FIRST DIGITAL WEAPON
by Kim Zetter

op cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the

story behind the virus that sabotaged Irans
nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has
ushered in a new age of warfareone in which
a digital attack can have the same destructive
capability as a megaton bomb.

Exhaustively researched . . . Zetter gives a full

account of this hack of the century, as the
operation has been called, [but] the book goes
well beyond its ostensible subject to offer a hairraising introduction to the age of cyber warfare. Wall Street Journal
Broadway Books TR 978-0-7704-3619-3 448 pp. $16.00
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