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The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America

by Sarah E. Igo

Every day, we make decisions about what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one’s private affairs and public identity has become an urgent task of modern life. How did privacy come to loom so large in public consciousness? Sarah Igo tracks the quest for privacy from the invention of the telegraph onward, revealing

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

592

ISBN

9780674244795