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Permanent Record

Written by: Edward Snowden
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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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.

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. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. 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.

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. 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.

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great book would absolutely reccomend to anyone. Snowden is a surprisingly good writer and keeps you interested every chapter.

very entertaining and informative

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It's mostly his story so if you already know it or have seen him speak (find the youtube video of joe rogan and him) you wont get much out of this book. It's interesting though.

Nothing new

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Ever since the world has heard of Edward Snowden, many people like myself have wanted to hear the full story from his perspective. This book has great detail on the accounts of his involvement in the NSA. What lead him to work there, and what inspired Snowden to leak very informative secrets the US government, and other world governments have been keeping the globes population on our privacy and human rights.
I highly recommend this book.

Informative and interesting

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It would have been nice if there was a chapter about things we could do to help free ourselves, and limit the prying eye.

Help Ed !

I wish it was longer, very good book

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Snowden is, obviously, an American hero, but also an excellent writer. Glad I read this.

This was brilliant

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