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From the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Angler, who unearthed the deepest secrets of Edward Snowden's NSA archive, the first master narrative of the surveillance state that emerged after 9/11 and why it matters, based on scores of hours of conversation with Snowden and groundbreaking reportage in Washington, London, Moscow and Silicon ValleyEdward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizen Four. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on Snowden's behalf.
About the Author
Barton Gellman is a critically honored author, journalist and blogger. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, and his bestselling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency was named a New York Times Best Book of 2008. In 2010 he left The Washington Post to begin a new book project and take up a position as contributing editor at large for TIME magazine. Gellman writes the CounterSpy blog about digital privacy and security, and he is working with Spring Creek Productions ("Recount," "Blood Diamond") to adapt his Cheney book for an HBO movie. He holds appointments as Lecturer and Author in Residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
