Secrecy: the American experience By Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Listed among the Best Nonfiction of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, chairman of the bipartisan Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy, here presents an eloquent and fascinating account of the development of secrecy as a mode of regulation in American government since World War I—how it was born, how world events shaped it, how it has adversely affected momentous political decisions and events, and how it has eluded efforts to curtail or end it." Yale University Press-Read more
Daniel Patrick Moynihan