num_pages: 192
description: In 1964 a book entitled The Invisible Government shocked Americans with its revelations of a growing world of intelligence agencies playing fast and loose around the planet a secret government lodged inside the one they knew that even the president didn't fully control. Almost half a century later everything about that invisible government has grown vastly larger more disturbing and far more visible. In his new book Tom Engelhardt takes in something new under the what is no longer as in the 1960s a national security state but a global security one fighting secret wars that have turned the president into an assassin-in-chief. Shadow Government offers a powerful survey of a democracy of the wealthy that your grandparents wouldn't have recognized.
language: English
title: Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World
publisher: Haymarket Books