Bottoms up and the devil laughs : a journey through the deep state / Kerry Howley.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Description: 233 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525655497
- 0525655492
- Journey through the deep state
- Official secrets -- United States
- Leaks (Disclosure of information) -- Political aspects -- United States
- Whistle blowing -- United States
- Intelligence service -- United States
- United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service
- Electronic surveillance -- United States
- Drone aircraft -- Government policy -- United States
- Defense information, Classified -- United States
- Information technology -- Political aspects
- Terrorism -- United States -- Prevention
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST . A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR . A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable." - The New York Times
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America-from the acclaimed author of Thrown
Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections-a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined.
Following Winner's unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history- they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern life.
"This is a Borzoi Book" -- Title page verso.
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern life"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233).