The torment of secrecy
the background and consequences of American security policies
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1974 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
59,500 words, Guess
Page Count
238 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5045143M
- ISBN-100809306670
- ISBN-139780809306671
- LibraryThing8402071
- Goodreads3462894
Classifications
- DDC327.1
- LCCE743.5 .S48 1974
Description
Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and subversion at home, assessing the magnitude of such threats and contrasting it to the agitation - by lawmakers, investigators, and administrators - so wildly directed against the "enemy." Mr. Shils, widely regarded as one of the world's most influential social thinkers, has written an examination of a recurring American characteristic that is as timely as ever.
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