The Listeners
Author: Hochman, Brian
ISBN: 9780674249288
RM270.73
Publisher,Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date,
Format, Hardcover
Weight,
No. of Pages, 360
Electronic surveillance was once a specialized intelligence-gathering tool that provoked fascination and protest. Now it is a mundane fact of our consumer world. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, police and presidents, businessmen and filmmakers who made wiretapping a defining technology of American history--
