Jonathan Lethem, The New York Review of Books Against absurd odds, he delivered his knowledge to us.” Having gazed through the windows of the panopticon, he experienced that rarity, a moment of vision: The world must be told these things I know. “Snowden’s book is straightforward, admirably so. Offers a useful reminder of the god-like omniscience that digital data can bestow on those with the power to collect it all.” Snowden’s descriptions of the real impact of the various surveillance systems he disclosed-stripped of abstract concepts and technical jargon-are some of the most disturbing parts of the book. As his memoir makes clear, all the techniques he exposed in 2013 remain in place.” A deeply reluctant whistleblower, Snowden also emerges as a peculiarly American patriot, with roots that go back to Plymouth Rock. “Even for those of us who’ve followed the Snowden revelations closely, Permanent Record is full of surprises. His account of the experiences that led him to take momentous decisions, along with the details he gives of his family background, serve as a robust defense against accusations that he is a traitor." He felt ordinary citizens were being betrayed, and he had a duty to explain how. “Snowden eventually decided his loyalties lay not with the agencies he was working for, but the public they were set up to protect. Snowden demonstrates a knack for explaining in lucid and compelling language the inner workings of systems and the menace he came to believe they posed.” Snowden pushes the reader to reflect more seriously on what every American should be asking already.” 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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