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Spying On You - For the US Government, It's Nothing New
CIA Cold War Memoir Reveals Chilling Parallels to Current Culture of Fear.
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March 2006 -  In scenes eerily parallel to the culture of fear inspired by our current War on Terror, A Need to Know explores the clandestine history of a CIA family defined, and ultimately destroyed, by their oath to keep toxic secrets during the Cold War.
When Bud Goodall’s father mysteriously died, his inheritance consisted of three well-worn books: a Holy Bible, The Great Gatsby, and a diary. But they turned his life upside down. From the diary Goodall learned that his father had been a CIA operative during the height of the Cold War, and the Bible and Gatsby had been his codebooks. Many unexplained facets of Bud’s childhood came into focus with this revelation. The high living in Rome and London. The blood-stained stiletto in his jewelry case. The mysterious “uncles” who interrogated the six-year-old boy after embassy cocktail parties for information he might have gleaned from other children. Bud, as a child, was always told he never had “a need to know.” Or did he? Now, as an adult and a university professor, Goodall attempts to fill in the missing pieces of his Cold War childhood by uncovering a lifetime of family secrets. Who were his parents? What did his father do on those business trips when he was “working for the government?” Whose political fiefdom had he threatened when the family was suddenly removed from a State Department posting in London, England and exiled to Cheyenne, Wyoming? What betrayal turned a heroic career of national service into a nightmare of alcoholism, depression, and premature death for both of his parents? Slowly, inexorably, Goodall unearths the chilling secrets of a CIA family in A Need to Know. Dr. Goodall's chilling personal story offers a unique perspective on some of today's most relevant issues including: - The long standing "cult of secrecy" in American culture -- why we foster secrecy in our families, corporations, and government.
- Why America's ever-growing climate of fear and anxiety is nothing new to those who lived through the Cold War.
- And, if history is indeed repeating itself, how devasting an impact could domestic surveillance have on each of us personally, and as a nation?
About the Author
Harold Lloyd (Bud) Goodall, Jr. is a highly regarded, organizational scholar and a Professor and Director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Primarily known for his pioneering work in the new ethnography of organizations and communities, his current work is focused on communication in relation to terrorism and national security in a post-9/11 culture. A NEED TO KNOW: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family By Harold Lloyd (Bud) Goodall, Jr. Left Coast Press March 2006/ 416 pages/ ISBN 1-59874-041-5/cloth/ $24.95
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Kathleen Meyer
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kmeyer@bookflash.com
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