Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies and scandal mongers, confidence artists and security experts, police and presidents who made the wiretap a defining technology of American history.
Tiré du site Internet de University of Minnesota Press: "Brian Hochman shows how widespread interest in recording vanishing races and disappearing cultures influenced audiovisual innovation, experimentation, and use in the U.S. Drawing extensively on seldom-seen archival sources, Savage Preservation offers a new model for thinking about race and media in the American context--and a fresh take on a period of accelerated technological change that closely resembles our own."