{"product_id":"blank-spots-on-the-map-the-dark-geography-of-the-pentagons-secret-world-paperback","title":"Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTrevor Paglen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTrevor Paglen\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't \u003ci\u003eexist\u003c\/i\u003e...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the \"black world.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar \"black\" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrevor Paglen, Ph.D., has published numerous research papers in academic journals and his writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eI Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTorture Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also an internationally recognized artist who exhibits frequently in major galleries and museums around the world. He lives in Berkeley, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 9 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52631842062643,"sku":"9780451229168","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/3YIYCR9zn9780451229168.webp?v=1762192401","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/blank-spots-on-the-map-the-dark-geography-of-the-pentagons-secret-world-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}