Necessary Secrets Paperback by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2011-05-24)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393339932
• Item Weight: 267.62 grams
• Dimensions: 8.22 x 5.54 x 0.75 cm

"Essential reading for anyone seriously interested in national security and freedom of the press." —Leonard Downie Jr., Washington Post

Gabriel Schoenfeld "brilliantly illuminates" (Wall Street Journal) a growing rift between a press that sees itself as the heroic force promoting the public’s "right to know" and a government that needs to safeguard information vital to the effective conduct of foreign policy. A masterful contribution to the enduring challenge of interpreting the First Amendment, Necessary Secrets offers a gripping account of how our national security, now and across the American past, has been compromised by disclosure of classified information.

About the Author

Gabriel Schoenfeld is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. and a resident scholar at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. His essays on national security and modern history have appeared in leading publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the Atlantic, the National Interest, and Commentary, where he was senior editor from 1994 to 2008. Schoenfeld holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.