Permanent Record

By: Edward Snowden

Narrated by: Holter Graham

An NPR Best Book of the Year - 2019

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.

In 2013, 29-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online - a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the internet’s conscience. Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic.

©2019 Edward Snowden (P)2019 Macmillan Audio

number one best seller worldwide! I'm proud

it's his life I'm glad his story is getting out and we become a little less ignorant

A Must read for every free citizen of the world.

Read it if you want to understand what it takes to have the courage to protect your freedom to live without Big Brother.

very informative book

loved it, very informative read that confirmed my many suspicions regarding our loss of privacy.

Briljant and necessary

Loved it! It has a slow start but it gets valuable. My respect for Snowden ánd Lindsey has been greatly improved. It is a necessary story. Thanks Ed

A Hero for Our Time

Mr. Snowden gave his life for America, and his “Permanent Record” does a wonderful job of setting the record straight.