The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror - by Christian Parenti
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Christian Parenti is a member of - Open Society Institute -www.soros.org
Christian Parenti has done it again. Lockdown America was the most politically sophisticated and uncompromising astute book on the prison-industrial complex. In the Soft Cage we now have a comparable examination of the role of surveillance in shaping and maintaining social heirarchy and class power in American history. This book is well written and historically grounded and steeped in political economy and social context..... the machinery of surveillance has a gradiose and universal ambition and Soft Cage is a history, a cautionary tale and a hope.