The Whistleblower's Dilemma: Snowden, Silkwood and Their Quest for the Truth

About This Audiobook

In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, a twenty-nine-year-old former CIA employee, leaked thousands of top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents to journalist Glen Greenwald. Branded as a whistleblower, Snowden reignited a debate about private citizens who reveal government secrets that should be exposed but may endanger the lives of others. Like the late Karen Silkwood, whose death in a car accident while bringing incriminating evidence against her employer to a meeting with a New York Times reporter is still a mystery, Snowden was intent upon revealing the controversial practices of his employer, a government contractor. Rightly or wrongly, Snowden and Silkwood believed that their revelations would save lives. In his riveting, thought-provoking book, Richard Rashke weaves between the lives of these two controversial figures and creates a narrative context for a discussion of what constitutes a citizen's duty to reveal or not to reveal.

Details

Author: Richard Rashke
Narrator: Jamie Renell, Shannon Nicole Locke
Runtime: 04:50:20
ISBN: 9781971980171

About the Author

RICHARD RASHKE is a lecturer and author of non-fiction books including Stormy Genius: The Life of Aviation's Maverick Bill Lear, Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America's Open Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals, Escape from Sobibor, and The Killing of Karen Silkwood. Rashke is featured in the award-winning international television series Nazi Hunters. His works have been translated into thirteen languages and have been the subject of movies for screen and television. A produced screenwriter and playwright, his work has appeared on network television and off-Broadway. He is also an alto sax player and composer. His composition, Crane Wife, a family musical based on a Japanese folktale, was performed at the Kennedy Center. More than 250,000 school children have seen a live performance of his play Dear Esther, about a Sobibor death camp survivor. He lives in Wisconsin. www.richardrashke.com

Reviews

A look at Edward Snowden, Karen Silkwood, and government and corporate whistleblowing, by an author praised for his "first-rate reporting".

This riveting book gets beyond the surface facts and simple emotions of the Silkwood case to the fundamental and in some cases frightening aspect of a story that may never be completely told.

An impressive and vital new book, or better yet, just call it 'impressive and vital. . .' meets a demanding test of objectivity.

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