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Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information ACT-

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“Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ...
Binding
Hardcover
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1 lbs
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ISBN
0735215758
Book Title
Baseless : My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Item Length
9.5 in
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year
2020
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.5 in
Author
Nicholson Baker
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
Topic
Military Science, United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, Literary
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writers Ten years into researching a book about the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker was frustrated and disheartened. In the course of his research, he had become deeply disillusioned with the process of FOIA requests. He has been forced to wait years in some cases, while other requests have been answered only with documents rendered inscrutable, or even illegible, by copious redactions. Rather than wait forever, with his head full of secrets about government atrocities committed by his own country, Baker sets out to keep a personal journal of his obstructed research instead. He begins documenting his correspondence with the government administrators who are charged with responding to, and thus stymying, his requests. The result is one of the most original and daring works of nonfiction in recent memory, a singular and mesmerizing narrative into the history of some of the darkest and most shameful secrets of the CIA and US government - all willfully concealed to some degree despite the existence of the so-called Freedom of Information Act. In his preternaturally lucid and unassuming style, Baker unearths stories of CIA programs involving weaponized insects and the deliberate spread of Lyme disease, dangerous military experiments carried out on unsuspecting American citizens, and devastating chemical munitions designed to inflict terrible harm on innocent civilians in far-flung countries. At the same time, he shares beautiful anecdotes from his daily life in Maine feeding his dogs and watching the morning light gather on the horizon. The result is an astonishing and utterly disarming story about waiting, bureaucracy, the horrors of war, and, above all, the deadly secrets the United States government keeps from its citizens.

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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735215758
ISBN-13
9780735215757
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Book Title
Baseless : My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act
Author
Nicholson Baker
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
464 Pages

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Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz

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Ug447.8.B28 2020
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"The synchronicity is extraordinary, almost chilling: Nicholson Baker's gripping diary of his endless attempts to ferret out facts relating to the Pentagon's top-secret biological weapons programs is published while the whole world is suddenly upended and aghast amid a lethal biological attack of an apparently natural origin. I say apparently natural - for as every page of this book is peppered with tales of bizarre weapons - infected feathers, for God's sake! plague-saturated voles! - you come away doubting everything the US government ever says. And yet, through it all, Baker tells us with a meticulous diarist's calm about his dogs and the Maine countryside and the birdsong, and you feel, in the end, everything will be alright, and germ-free." --Simon Winchester, author of The Man Who Loved China and The Professor and the Madman "A luminous meditation on the power of secrets and mysteries. Baker shows us the ways in which a government shielded by a bodyguard of lies threatens the foundations of democracy." --Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Legacy Of Ashes and The Folly and the Glory "One of America's most brilliantly creative writers navigates the mirrored labyrinth of government secrecy with a combination of astonishment and rage. Along the way, he discovers an array of long-hidden terrors while balancing the joys of daily life against the dread that envelops all who confront the reality of covert power." --Stephen Kinzer, author of Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
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2019-043384

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