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Author Baesler, John Philipp, author.

Title Clearer than truth : the polygraph and the American Cold War / John Philipp Baesler.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 309 pages).
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Series Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond
Culture and politics in the Cold War and beyond.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- How the polygraph does and does not work -- Truth to remake society, 1880s-1940 -- World War II, national security, and the search for loyal citizens -- The polygraph and the specter of totalitarianism within -- Truth and national security in the American Cold War -- Immeasurable security : the polygraph and the CIA -- The polygraph and the problems of deterrence -- Congress, the right to privacy, and the retrenchment of the polygraph -- Epilogue.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Lie detectors and detection -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Lie detectors and detection.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Lie detectors and detection -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Internal security.
Allegiance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Allegiance.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1945-1989
Subject Cold War -- Political aspects -- United States.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Polygraph and the American Cold War
Other Form: Print version: Baesler, John Philipp. Clearer than truth. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018 9781625343130 (DLC) 2017050240
ISBN 9781613765647 (electronic book)
1613765649 (electronic book)
9781613765654 (electronic book)
1613765657 (electronic book)
9781625343130 (hardcover)

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