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.. .Scheer powerfully connects the dots of our chilling Orwellian present, one in which privacy is considered a luxury, rather than a right. -- Publishers Weekly A vital piece of work that demands attention. -- Kirkus Reviews Robert Scheer reminds us that privacy is everything--the protector of our liberty, the guarantor of our personal autonomy, the fountainhead of our democracy--and yet it's disappearing faster than an electronic blip moving at warp speed from your computer to the NSA. With clarity and precision, Scheer dissects the military-intelligence complex, showing it to be neither very secure nor very intelligent, but, rather, dangerous to us all. --Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley They Know Everything About You is a brilliant book. Robert Scheer, who covered my 1971 trial after I released the Pentagon Papers, has been following privacy and surveillance issues for decades. He is a key voice and his book-- cogent, timely, and fascinating--is an indispensable text for our time. --Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Robert Scheer has undertaken a penetrating examination of Americans' disappearing privacy and issued a clarion call in these pages, lest we unwittingly click-away our freedom. --John W. Dean, bestselling author and former Nixon White House counsel Scheer is one of the most important journalists in America. He is not only brilliant, possessed by a fierce and uncompromising integrity, but is a lyrical and often moving writer. All of these talents are on full display in his latest book about the rise of the security and surveillance state and the terrifying dystopia that will be visited upon us all unless our right to privacy is returned to us. --Chris Hedges, fellow at The Nation Institute and coauthor of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt This is what journalism looks like, provided by one of the greatest reporters of our times. Scheer has written a powerful indictment of the present-day corporate-government surveillance regime that has effectively eliminated the right to privacy. Like a master surgeon, he dissects the self-serving rationales for the wholesale illegal spying on Americans and shows them to be nonsense. --Robert W. McChesney, author of Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century

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Robert Scheer is the editor-in-chief of the Webby Award-winning online magazine Truthdig, professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and co-host of Left, Right & Center, a weekly syndicated radio show broadcast from NPR's west coast affiliate, KCRW. In the 1960s, he was editor of the groundbreaking Ramparts magazine and later was national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Scheer is the author of nine books, including The Great American Stickup. He lives in Los Angeles.

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