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Nicholson Baker

Baseless

My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act

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A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act - FOIA - and the horrifying, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writersEight years ago, while investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents from the early 1950s under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Years went by, and he got no response. Rather than wait forever, Baker set out to keep a personal journal of what it feels like to try to write abo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7352-1575-7
  • EAN: 9780735215757
  • Produktnummer: 32922174
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 464 S.
  • Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.7 cm 729 g
  • Gewicht: 729

Über den Autor


Nicholson Baker is the author of ten novels and six works of nonfiction, including The Anthologist, The Mezzanine, and Human Smoke. He has won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a Hermann Hesse Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a Katherine Anne Porter Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, Margaret Brentano.

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