WIKILEAKS Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy

We truly are in the Information Age—but what information should be released to the public, and how? This book tries to formulate answers to those questions by looking at WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his life, including his early penchant for computers and the rape charges against him. Paul Michael Garcia’s narration is functional, and his diction is clear. But his delivery has a robotic quality, as if he were reading a script. The last few hours of the book, on the politics of information, tend to be dense. What truly engages is the authors’ inside look at how WikiLeaks was able to disseminate masses of classified information, both through technical means and through the cooperative effort of the mainstream media. M.B. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2011]