The Right to Privacy Paperback - 1997
by Caroline Kennedy; Ellen Alderman
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The authors of the national bestseller "In Our Defense" survey hundreds of cases in which ordinary citizens have battled the intrusions of government, industry, the news media, and their own neighbors. Out of these eye-opening narratives, Kennedy and Alderman present a timely, historically informed, and eminently useful look at the state of our right to be left alone.
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- Title The Right to Privacy
- Author Caroline Kennedy; Ellen Alderman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0679744347I3N00
- ISBN 9780679744344 / 0679744347
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.14 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.06 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Privacy, Right of - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95014286
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.44
From the jacket flap
Can the police strip-search a woman who has been arrested for a minor traffic violation? Can a magazine publish an embarrassing photo of you without your permission? Does your boss have the right to read your email? Can a company monitor its employees' off-the-job lifestyles--and fire those who drink, smoke, or live with a partner of the same sex? Although the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, most of us believe that we have an inalienable right to be left alone. Yet in arenas that range from the battlefield of abortion to the information highway, privacy is under siege. In this eye-opening and sometimes hair-raising book, Alderman and Kennedy survey hundreds of recent cases in which ordinary citizens have come up against the intrusions of government, businesses, the news media, and their own neighbors. At once shocking and instructive, up-to-date and rich in historical perspective, The Right to Private is an invaluable guide to one of the most charged issues of our time.
"Anyone hoping to understand the sometimes precarious state of privacy in modern America should start by reading this book."--Washington Post Book World
"Skillfully weaves together unfamiliar, dramatic case histories...a book with impressive breadth."--Time
