Ted Gup

An investigative journalist provides a history of CIA covert operations, based on highly classified information, and reveals the true stories of agents who have died anonymously in the line of duty.

The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives

The Book of Honor

The author explains how, after he discovered a cache of letters addressed to his grandfather, he realized that the man had taken out a classified ad shortly before Christmas in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, offering $10, no-strings-attached, to families in need, in a book that focuses on the profound effects the gifts had on their recipients.

How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression

A Secret Gift

"A wonderful reminder that economic hardship can bring suffering but can also foster compassion and community." -The Boston Globe In hard economic times like these, readers will find bestselling author Ted Gup's unique book uplifting as well as captivating. Inside a suitcase kept in his mother's attic, Gup discovered letters written to his grandfather in response to an ad placed in a Canton, Ohio, newspaper in 1933 that offered cash to seventy-five families facing a devastating Christmas. The author travels coast to coast to unveil the lives behind the letters, describing a range of hardships and recreating in his research the hopes and suffering of Depression-era Americans, even as he uncovers the secret life led by the grandfather he thought he knew.

How One Man's Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of t he Great Depression

An investigative journalist provides a history of CIA covert operations, based on highly classified information, and reveals the true stories of agents who have died anonymously in the line of duty

Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA

Book of Honor

Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, and privacy--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He explores the blatant exploitation of privacy and confidentiality in academia, business, and the courts, and concludes that in case after case, these principles have been twisted to allow the emergence of a shadow system of justice, unaccountable to the public. Nation of Secrets not only sounds the alarm to warn against an unethical way of life, but calls for the preservation of our democracy as we know it.

Nation of Secrets

Examines the growing emphasis on secrecy in government, business, academia, courtrooms, the media, and every other aspect of American life, explaining why the expanding array of classified information devaluates true privacy and how the preoccupation with secrecy has undermined such values as patriotism, security, privacy, and the national interest. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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