Edward Snowden’s memoir, Permanent Record, is coming out next month
Former National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden is releasing a memoir titled Permanent Record on September 17th. The book, to be published by Macmillan Publishers imprint Metropolitan Books, will focus on Snowden’s time in the NSA, the massive surveillance apparatus he helped build there, and his internal conflicts that led him to eventually disclose the NSA’s activities to journalists like then-Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald.
The numerous articles based on Snowden’s information published in The Guardian and The Washington Post earned the respective journalists the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and Snowden’s disclosures have had a direct impact on the shutdown of controversial NSA programs.
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