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Hochman, Brian, 1980- author.

Title The listeners : a history of wiretapping in the United States / Brian Hochman.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
	©2022

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Location	Call No.	Status
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	363.25 HOCKMAN	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	363.232 HOCHMAN	Check Shelf
Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction	363.25 HOCKMAN	Check Shelf

Description	360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The ballad of D. C. Williams -- Part One. Dirty business: Stolen signals and whispering wires -- Detective Burns goes to Washington -- To intercept and divulge -- The wiretapper's nest -- Part Two. The bug in the martini olive: Eavesdroppers -- Tapping God's telephone -- Part Three. The listening age: Title III -- Big brother, where art thou? -- Limited assistance necessary -- Off the wire -- Epilogue: King's call, Hoover's tap.
Summary	"Electronic surveillance was once a specialized intelligence-gathering tool that provoked fascination and protest. Now it is a mundane fact of our consumer world. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, police and presidents, businessmen and filmmakers who made wiretapping a defining technology of American history"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Wiretapping -- United States -- History.
	Electronic surveillance -- United States -- History.
	Electronic surveillance. (OCoLC)fst00907477
	Wiretapping. (OCoLC)fst01176227
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780674249288 hardcover
	0674249283 hardcover

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