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Bravehearts
- Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden
- Narrated by: Reid Armbruster
- Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley, or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, corporate murder, or scientific scandal - the public benefits enormously. Wars are ended, deadly products are taken off the market, white-collar criminals are sent to jail. The whistleblowers themselves, however, generally end up ruined. Nearly all of them lose their jobs - and in many cases their marriages and their health - as they refuse to back down in the face of increasingly ferocious official retaliation. That moral stubbornness despite terrible personal cost is the defining DNA of whistleblowers. The public owes them more than we know.
In Bravehearts, Hertsgaard tells the gripping, sometimes darkly comic and ultimately inspiring stories of the unsung heroes of our time. A deeply reported, impassioned polemic, Bravehearts is a book for citizens everywhere - especially students, teachers, activists and anyone who wants to make a difference in the world around them.
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- JOD
- 04-05-23
Interesting
I wanted to learn more bout snowden and other whistleblowers and how telling the truth in the good old 'us of a' means you will have your life destroyed, so much corruption is anyone straight.
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- Adrian Chan-Wyles Ph.D
- 28-01-22
US Hypocrisy at Everyturn!
Reading US literature is like reading the tomes of the mentally ill! Yes - there is quite often a solid core of logic running through the narrative - but either side is buffeted with lies, deception, anti-intellectualism and deliberate misinterpretation. East Germany was riddled with Hitler supporters post-1945 which the Stasi arrested and imprisoned. Nazi Germany had just murdered 41 million men, women and children in the USSR and another 11 million in the death camps. Any sane person would applaud the Stasi for rounding up this scum in East Germany - but not the Americans - they turned these people into victims of human rights abuses and declared the East German State as being 'totalitarian', which is just one of the many myths this author uses to portray the US as being the 'perfect State'! In 1991, these Nazis were released to great fanfare and embraces by the forces of Liberal democracy before they then found Neo-Nazis organisations and began anew the Hitlerite oppression of Jews, disabled. Gays and Communists etc. In the meantime, a recent study states that since 1945 the US military has killed between 20-30 million people around the world in pursuit of its foreign policy objectives. My point is that none of this vital data is in this book - a book that purports to be on the side of the people!
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