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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) is widely regarded as one of the brightest lights on Capitol Hill. He is, to quote Michael Barone's contribution to this admiring anthology of tributes, "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson." (John J. Miller)
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Secrecy : The American Experience -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Gid Powers (Introduction); Paperback Secrecy : The American Experience -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Gid Powers (Introduction); Hardcover
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) was one of the first members of the United States government openly to predict the imminent collapse of the Soviet Union--and, by extension, statist communism--as far back as the late '70s, as political historian Richard Gid Powers reminds readers in a lengthy introduction (comprising approximately one-fifth of Secrecy's total length). Had we spent less time trying to gather secret information about the Soviets and more time openly discussing rather easily interpretable data, Sen. Moynihan argues, we might have been far less paranoid about the supposed Red menace. The problem, he writes, lies in the essential nature of government secrecy: "Departments and agencies hoard information, and the government becomes a kind of market. Secrets become organizational assets, never to be shared save in exchange for another organization's assets.... The system costs can be enormous. In the void created by absent or withheld information, decisions are either made poorly or not at all."
Sen. Moynihan draws upon several incidents to make his point, from the Army's deliberate withholding from President Harry Truman of information about Soviet spy rings to the disastrous 1961 invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs to the Iran-Contra affair. The senator knows whereof he speaks; he was for eight years a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Secrecy ably combines hands-on experience and historical perspective, calling for the United States to take advantage of the new era in international relations to implement policies that once again encourage the open, uninhibited flow of information among government agencies and, whenever possible, the public. --Ron Hogan (amazon reviewer).
- The Afro-Americans (Peoples of North America) ~
- Howard Smead, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1989
8.46 ~ 1.49 (15%)
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- Charles Brooks(Editor), Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Paperback / Published 1980
14.41 ~ 2.54 (15%) (Back Ordered)
Read more about this title... - Beyond the Melting Pot; The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City (Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies) ~
- Nathan Glazer, et al / Paperback / Published 1990
18.50 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan : The Intellectual in Public Life ~
- Robert A. Katzmann(Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1998
24.95
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- Michael Glazier(Editor), Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Hardcover / Published 1999
62.97 ~ 26.98 (30%) - Ethnicity : Theory and Experience ~
- Nathan Glazer(Editor), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1976
19.95 - From Rocky to Pataki : Character and Caricatures in New York Politics ~
- Hy Rosen, et al / Hardcover / Published 1999
26.95
Read more about this title... - The German Americans (The Immigrant Experience) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Anne Galicich, et al / Paperback / Published 1996
8.46 ~ 1.49 (15%)
Read more about this title... - The Greek Americans (Immigrant Experience) ~
- Dimitris Monos, et al / Paperback / Published 1996
9.95 - Illegal Aliens (Immigrant Experience) ~
- Sandra Stotsky(Editor), et al / Library Binding / Published 1996
19.95
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- J. F. Watts, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
8.46 ~ 1.49 (15%) - The Jewish Americans (The Immigrant Experience) ~
- Howard Muggamin, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
8.46 ~ 1.49 (15%) - Miles to Go : A Personal History of Social Policy ~
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Hardcover / Published 1996
22.95
Read more about this title... - Miles to Go : A Personal History of Social Policy ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Paperback / Published 1997
12.71 ~ 2.24 (15%)
Read more about this title... - On the Law of Nations ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Paperback / Published 1992
10.95
Read more about this title... - Pandaemonium : Ethnicity in International Politics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, et al / Paperback / Published 1994
7.61 ~ 1.34 (15%)
Read more about this title... - Pandemonium : Ethnicity in International Politics ~
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Adam Roberts (Designer) / Hardcover / Published 1993
27.50
Read more about this title... - A Passion for Truth : The Selected Writings of Eric Breindel ~
- Eric Breindel, et al / Hardcover / Published 1999
18.75 ~ 6.25 (25%)
Read more about this title... - The Polish Americans (The Immigrant Experience) ~
- Sean Dolan, et al / Paperback / Published 1996
9.95
Read more about this title... - Secrecy : The American Experience ~ Usually ships in 24 hours
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Gid Powers (Introduction) / Hardcover / Published 1998
25.00
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- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Richard Gid Powers (Introduction) / Paperback / Published 1999
8.76 ~ 2.19 (20%)
Read more about this title... - The South Americans (Peoples of North America) ~
- Alan Cullison, Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Library Binding / Published 1994
19.95
Read more about this title... - The Torment of Secrecy : The Background and Consequences of American Security Policies ~
- Daniel P. Moynihan(Introduction), Edward Albert Shils / Paperback / Published 1996
12.95
Read more about this title... - The Tyranny of Numbers : Mismeasurement and Misrule ~
- Nicholas Eberstadt, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
14.41 ~ 2.54 (15%) - The Tyranny of Numbers : Mismeasurement and Misrule (Aei Studies, 528) ~
- Nicholas Eberstadt, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Contributor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
24.95 - The Arab Americans
- Alixa Naff, Daniel P. Moynihan (Designer) / Library Binding / Published 1987
19.95 (Special Order) - The English Americans (Peoples of North America)
- James M. Cornelius, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Photographer) / Library Binding / Published 1990
19.95 (Special Order)
Read more about this title... - On the Law of Nations
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan / Hardcover / Published 1990
30.45 (Special Order)
Read more about this title... - Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Larry Combest / Paperback / Published 1997
45.00 (Special Order)
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