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The Known Citizen

A History of Privacy in Modern America
  • Sarah E. Igo
2018
Harvard University Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • Book Review

    In America's Panopticon

    Sarah Igo’s "The Known Citizen" examines the linked histories of privacy and surveillance in the United States.
    by Katie Fitzpatrick via The Nation on December 6, 2018
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    Book Review

    Known Unknowns

    The elusive meaning of privacy in America.
    by Katrina Forrester via Harper’s on September 1, 2018
  • Book Excerpt

    Defining Privacy—and Then Getting Rid of It

    The beginnings of the end of private life in the late nineteenth century.
    by Sarah E. Igo via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 15, 2018
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