TY - GEN T1 - Whistleblowers : honesty in America from Washington to Trump A1 - Stanger, Allison LA - English PP - New Haven PB - Yale University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1117508719 AB - A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era. Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service-yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America. Analyzing a range of whistleblowing episodes, from the corrupt Revolutionary War commodore Esek Hopkins (whose dismissal led in 1778 to the first whistleblower protection law) to Edward Snowden, to the dishonesty of Donald Trump, Allison Stanger reveals the centrality of whistleblowing to the health of American democracy. She also shows that with changing technology and increasing militarization, the exposure of misconduct has grown more difficult to do and more personally costly for those who do it-yet American freedom, especially today, depends on it. OP - 290 CN - E183 SN - 9780300189568 SN - 0300189567 SN - 9780300186888 SN - 0300186886 KW - Whistle blowing : United States : History. KW - Leaks (Disclosure of information) : United States : History. KW - Political corruption : United States : History. KW - United States : Politics and government : Miscellanea. KW - Alerte professionnelle : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Fuites (Divulgation d'informations) : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - Corruption (Politique) : États-Unis : Histoire. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : American Government : General. KW - Political corruption KW - Leaks (Disclosure of information) KW - Honesty KW - Politics and government KW - Whistle blowing KW - United States KW - Trivia and miscellanea KW - History ER -