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)
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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 crisisin this case the Cuban missile crisisis 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, 1962 | 3 | |
12:35 P.M. - Meeting on Soviet Arms Shipments to Cuba | 3 | |
4:00 P.M. - Drafting Meeting on the Press Statement | 9 | |
5:00 P.M. - Meeting With Congressional Leadership | 12 | |
5:55 P.M. - Meeting on the Congressional Resolution | 16 | |
Saturday, September 29, 1962 | 20 | |
11:00 A.M. - Meeting on the Soviet Union | 20 | |
Tuesday, October 16, 1962 | 30 | |
11:50 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis | 32 | |
6:30 P.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis | 53 | |
Thursday, October 18, 1962 | 73 | |
11:10 A.M. - Meeting on the Cuban Missile Crisis | 73 | |
Near Midnight. Kennedy Summarizes a Late-Night Meeting | 106 | |
Friday, October 19, 1962 | 109 | |
9:45 A.M. - Meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff | 109 | |
Saturday, October 20, 1962 | 124 | |
2:30 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting | 125 | |
Monday, October 22, 1962 | 138 | |
10:40 A.M. - Conversation with Dwight Eisenhower | 142 | |
11:00 A.M. - Meeting on Diplomatic Plans | 146 | |
11:47 A.M. - Meeting of Berlin Group | 149 | |
3:00 P.M. - National Security Council Meeting | 152 | |
5:30 P.M. - Meeting with the Congressional Leadership | 163 | |
Tuesday, October 23, 1962 | 194 | |
10:00 - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 194 | |
12:25 P.M. - Conversation with Lucius Clay | 202 | |
3:52 P.M. - Conversation with Roswell Gilpatric | 204 | |
6:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 206 | |
7:10 P.M. - Discussion between President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy | 218 | |
Wednesday, October 24, 1962 | 224 | |
10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 224 | |
5:05 P.M. - Meetings with Staff and Congressional Leadership | 234 | |
Thursday, October 25, 1962 | 245 | |
10:00 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 245 | |
5:25 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 260 | |
Friday, October 26, 1962 | 269 | |
10:10 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 269 | |
12:00 P.M. - Meeting with Intelligence Officials | 288 | |
4:30 P.M. - Conversation with Dean Rusk | 292 | |
7:31 P.M. - Conversation with Lincoln White | 295 | |
Saturday, October 27, 1962 | 301 | |
10:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 301 | |
4:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 324 | |
9:00 P.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 391 | |
Sunday, October 28, 1962 | 402 | |
11:05 A.M. - Executive Committee Meeting of the National Security Council | 404 | |
12:08 P.M. - Conversations with Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Herbert Hoover | 405 | |
Conclusion | 411 | |
Notes | 451 | |
Index | 491 |
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