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04460aam a22006138i 4500 001 473C1B1843AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221004012439 008 220630s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022019182 020 $a 1101871571 020 $a 9781101871577 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a JK468.S4 $b C656 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220803 100 1 $a Connelly, Matthew James, $e author. 245 14 $a THE DECLASSIFICATION ENGINE : $b WHAT HISTORY REVEALS ABOUT AMERICA'S TOP SECRETS / $c Matthew Connelly. 250 $a First Edition. 263 $a 2301 264 1 $a New York : $b Pantheon Books, $c [2023] 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The Radical Transparency of the American Republic: A Re-Introduction -- Pearl Harbor: The Original Secret -- The Bomb: Born Secret -- Code Making and Code Breaking: The Secret of Secrets -- The Military Industrial Complex: The Dirty Secret of Civil-Military Relations -- Surveillance: Other People's Secrets -- Weird Science: Secrets that Are Stranger than Fiction -- Following the Money: Trade Secrets -- Spin: The Flipside of Secrecy -- There Is No There There: The Best Kept Secret -- Deleting the Archive:The Ultimate Secret -- Conclusion: The End of History as We Know It. 520 $a "A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and prevent meaningful public oversight The United States was founded on the promise of a transparent government, but time and again we have abandoned the ideals ofour open republic. In recent history, we have permitted ourselves to engage in costly wars, opened ourselves to preventable attacks, and ceded unaccountable power to officials both elected and unelected. Secrecy may now be an integral policy to preserving the American way of life, but its true costs have gone unacknowledged for too long. Using the latest techniques in data science, historian Matthew Connelly analyzes the millions of state documents both accessible to the public and still under review tounearth not only what the government does not want us to know, but what it says about the very authority we bequeath to our leaders. By culling this research and carefully studying a series of pivotal moments in recent history from Pearl Harbor to drone strikes, Connelly sheds light on the drivers of state secrecy-especially consolidating power or hiding incompetence-and how the classification of documents has become untenable. What results is an astonishing study of power: of the greed that develops outof its possession, of the negligence that it protects, and of what we lose as citizens when it remains unchecked. A crucial examination of the self-defeating nature of secrecy and the dire state of our nation's archives, The Declassification Engine is a powerful reminder of the importance of preserving the past so that we may secure our future"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Transparency in government $z United States. 650 0 $a Government information $x Access control $z United States. $9 148987 650 0 $a Public administration $z United States. $9 123699 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government. $9 74365 776 08 $i Online version: 776 08 $a Connelly, Matthew James. $t Declassification engine $d New York : Pantheon Books, [2023] $z 9781101871584 $w (DLC) 2022019183 941 $a 22 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240817011733.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20240809020039.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716040154.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710062748.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013341.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20231108010353.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032551.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010220.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011223.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20230620010537.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230603010749.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20230519013758.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230404010432.0 952 $l S2PA501 $d 20230309104309.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230307010642.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20230304010801.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230303010957.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20230302023136.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230302011827.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230217010128.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230207010130.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230204010402.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=473C1B1843AD11EDBF5B08455EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search