Permanent Record
Book Review: “Gripping… Snowden demonstrates a knack for explaining in lurid and compelling language the inner workings of (CIA and NSA) systems and the menace he came to believe they posed.” (The Washington Post) Who hasn’t heard of Edward Snowden? He is one of the greats, a hero of our time. But what did he actually do? Well, if you’re anything like me, you only have the vaguest of ideas what his enormous contribution to society was (and is). In this young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller Permanent Record , we get an up close and personal account of the man, his life, and the truth he disclosed about the US government’s digital spying system that it used unlawfully against it’s own citizens and the entire world. It was a system Snowden helped create, and a system he successfully hacked in order to avoid capture after his bombshell disclosures in 2013. Today he still survives and thrives, living in Moscow in exile where he continues the fig...