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Fortress America on the front lines of homeland security, an inside look at the coming surveillance state
Record details
- ISBN: 0553803662
- ISBN: 9780553803662
- ISBN: 9780553900675 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0553900676 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xxiv, 243 p.) - Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, c2004.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | I: The maximum security state -- Imagination unbound -- The maximum security state -- The surveillance state -- Enemy of the state -- II: Terrorist games -- The threat matrix: executive decision -- Terrorist games: the first responders -- Germs amok: biowarriors in the ER -- III: The new colossus -- Bureaucrats on the barricades -- The scientific sentinels -- Cogs in the machine -- Losing altitude. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |
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Summary:
A look at America in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks examines the new technologies, laws, and measures designed to keep America safe and assesses the struggle to define the balance between freedom and security.
