Friday, January 16, 2009

Understanding Privacy or The Kennedy Tapes

Understanding Privacy

Author: Daniel J Solov

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible.

In this concise and lucid book, Daniel J. Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a provocative resolution. He argues that no single definition can be workable, but rather that there are multiple forms of privacy, related to one another by family resemblances. His theory bridges cultural differences and addresses historical changes in views on privacy. Drawing on a broad array of interdisciplinary sources, Solove sets forth a framework for understanding privacy that provides clear, practical guidance for engaging with relevant issues.

Understanding Privacy will be an essential introduction to long-standing debates and an invaluable resource for crafting laws and policies about surveillance, data mining, identity theft, state involvement in reproductive and marital decisions, and other pressing contemporary matters concerning privacy.

What People Are Saying

Jerry Kang
One of the topic's most prolific and thoughtful thinkers, Daniel Solove has written a clear and comprehensive analysis of privacy. In it, he explains why it has been so hard to conceptualize this thing called privacy, and provides a pragmatic, bottom-up understanding. This book will promote sharper thinking and analysis for the next generation of privacy scholarship and policy. --(Jerry Kang, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law)


Anita L. Allen
Daniel Solove offers a unique, challenging account of how to think better about-- and of-- privacy. No scholar in America is more committed to demystifying "the right to privacy".
--(Anita L. Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School)


Peter P. Swire
Daniel Solove has had the patience and insight to lay privacy bare. This is the most thorough and persuasive conceptualization of privacy written to date. Solove's taxonomy of privacy will become the standard tool for analyzing privacy problems.
--(Peter P. Swire, C. William O'Neill Professor of Law and Judicial Administration, Ohio State University)




Book about: Verträge

The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author: Ernest R May

October 1962: the United States and the Soviet Union stood eyeball to eyeball, each brandishing enough nuclear weapons to obliterate civilization in the Northern Hemisphere. It was one of the most dangerous moments in world history. Day by day, for two weeks, the inner circle of President Kennedy's National Security Council debated what to do, twice coming to the brink of attacking Soviet military units in Cuba -- units equipped for nuclear retaliation. And through it all, unbeknownst to any of the participants except the President himself, tape was rolling, capturing for posterity the deliberations that might have ended the world as we know it. Now available in this new concise edition, The Kennedy Tapes retains its gripping sense of history in the making.

Hendrik Hertzberg

Riveting. . . The Kennedy Tapes. . . [is] a suspenseful, self-contained narrative of a single intense episode. . . which in retrospect stands out as the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. -- New Yorker

Barry Gewen

[A] splendid achievement, as powerful and exciting a book as one is likely to read this year.... —New York Times Book Review

Stephen E. Ambrose

[M]esmerizing. I was utterly fascinated....the best, fullest account of crisis yet and will remain so for decades to come.

Richard J. Tofel

Gripping history. —Wall Street Journal

James G. Blight

[A]s close as most people will ever get to being a fly on the wall during the discussions of leaders. —Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review

(James Baker, former Secretary of State Observer (London)) - James Baker

To read [The Kennedy Tapes] is to be in the White House in those fateful days of October, 1962…This immediacy is new, and it is endlessly fascinating…The Kennedy Tapes is a must-read, not only for the student of history or international affairs, but for citizens of any country who hold out the hope that the Earth will never face such a crisis again.

Newsweek - Philip Seib

The Kennedy Tapes will fascinate anyone interested in history and anyone interested in how the American government works when its citizens most depend on it.

Kim Weiner New York Times - Kim Weiner

The transcripts…capture the power and drama of the moment. They show just how raw things were in the White House. They let readers hear leaders thinking out loud about what to do to force the Soviets to withdraw the missile. The raise ideas about nuclear weapons, political power and civilian control of the military that remain vital today…The tapes show men mulling over a global chess game in which the wrong move kills millions…The words are a record of decision-making in a nuclear crisis that has no equal.

Bruce W. Melan Time - Bruce Melan

[The Kennedy Tapes] is 700 pages of terror and drama.

Kirkus Reviews

The glimpse we get into the making of U.S. policy in a crisis—in this case the Cuban missile crisis—is unique and, in light of the historical and legal problems of the taping of White House conversations by presidents, may well remain so.

Which is a great pity, for despite the apparently poor quality of the tapes and various unresolved questions relating to them, the picture of U.S officials dealing with the most serious crisis of the Cold War is memorable. Although the editors, both scholars at Harvard, rightly remark on the "inherently disorderly character" of such meetings, the quality of understanding and analysis the participants brought to the task was high. There are some exceptions: The lack of esteem felt by Kennedy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff seems justified by their performance (General LeMay openly equated Kennedy's actions with "the appeasement at Munich"); the congressional group brought in to advise was less than helpful, Senator Fulbright, ironically, calling for an immediate all-out invasion. Kennedy privately chews Secretary Rusk out for failing to do contingency planning on the U.S. missiles in Turkey. But the praise given by the editors to Kennedy seems justified, not only for his clear recognition of the awesome responsibilities of his actions, but for asking questions that his advisors had neglected. The editors write of his "cold analytical mind," and indeed he alone notes that U.S. allies think that on the subject of Cuba "we're slightly demented"; if anything, he tends to be pessimistic ("He'll grab Berlin, of course," he says of Khrushchev). But it is particularly impressive when contrasted with the idiosyncratic, unsystematic, and uninformed policymaking of Khrushchev.

A remarkable and truly historic record, well analyzed and put in context by May and Zelikow.

What People Are Saying

Stephen E. Ambrose
The Kennedy Tapes is mesmerizing. I was utterly fascinated. The book is the best, fullest account of crisis yet and will remain so for decades to come…I can't think of when I've learned more from a single book.




Table of Contents:
Preface to the Concise Edition
A Note on Sources
Introduction
Tuesday, September 4, 19623
12:35 P.M. - Meeting on Soviet Arms Shipments to Cuba3
4:00 P.M. - Drafting Meeting on the Press Statement9
5:00 P.M. - Meeting With Congressional Leadership12
5:55 P.M. - Meeting on the Congressional Resolution16
Saturday, September 29, 196220
11:00 A.M. - Meeting on the Soviet Union20
Tuesday, October 16, 196230
11:50 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis32
6:30 P.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis53
Thursday, October 18, 196273
11:10 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis73
Near Midnight. Kennedy Summarizes a Late-Night Meeting106
Friday, October 19, 1962109
9:45 A.M. - Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff109
Saturday, October 20, 1962124
2:30 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting125
Monday, October 22, 1962138
10:40 A.M. - Conversation with Dwight Eisenhower142
11:00 A.M. - Meeting on Diplomatic Plans146
11:47 A.M. - Meeting of Berlin Group149
3:00 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting152
5:30 P.M. - Meeting with the Congressional Leadership163
Tuesday, October 23, 1962194
10:00 - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council194
12:25 P.M. - Conversation with Lucius Clay202
3:52 P.M. - Conversation with Roswell Gilpatric204
6:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council206
7:10 P.M. - Discussion between President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy218
Wednesday, October 24, 1962224
10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council224
5:05 P.M. - Meetings with Staff and Congressional Leadership234
Thursday, October 25, 1962245
10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council245
5:25 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council260
Friday, October 26, 1962269
10:10 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council269
12:00 P.M. - Meeting with Intelligence Officials288
4:30 P.M. - Conversation with Dean Rusk292
7:31 P.M. - Conversation with Lincoln White295
Saturday, October 27, 1962301
10:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council301
4:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council324
9:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council391
Sunday, October 28, 1962402
11:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council404
12:08 P.M. - Conversations with Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover405
Conclusion411
Notes451
Index491

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