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2022

Format:	Book
Author:	Hochman, Brian, 1980- author.
Title:	The listeners : a history of wiretapping in the United States / Brian Hochman.
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
Description:	360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary:	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Wiretapping -- United States -- History. Electronic surveillance -- United States -- History.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Introduction: The ballad of D. C. Williams -- Part One. Dirty business: Stolen signals and whispering wires -- Detective Burns goes to Washington -- To intercept and divulge -- The wiretapper's nest -- Part Two. The bug in the martini olive: Eavesdroppers -- Tapping God's telephone -- Part Three. The listening age: Title III -- Big brother, where art thou? -- Limited assistance necessary -- Off the wire -- Epilogue: King's call, Hoover's tap.
LCCN:	2021032833
ISBN:	9780674249288
Other Number:	1266201801
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Control Number:	939008
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Call Number:	363.252 Hochman

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