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The Known Citizen A History of Privacy in Modern America

Sarah E. Igo

Every day, Americans make decisions about their privacy: what to share and when, how much to expose and to whom. Securing the boundary between one’s private affairs and public identity has become a central task of citizenship. How did privacy come to loom so large in American life? Sarah Igo tracks...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The guest highlighted the book as a centurylong history of privacy in modern America, useful for thinking about the privatepublic divide.

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Sarah Igo, The Known Citizen, a History of Privacy in Modern America, gives a wonderful hundredyear overview of how Americans in almost every generation have redefined the boundary between private and...

— Episode: Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Or...

Episode: Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order?

The guest highlighted the book as a centurylong history of privacy in modern America, useful for thinking about the privatepublic divide.

"

Sarah Igo, The Known Citizen, a History of Privacy in Modern America, gives a wonderful hundredyear overview of how Americans in almost every generation have redefined the boundary between private and public.

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