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Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save lots of ours. When insiders like previous NSA analyst Edward Snowden, ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley, or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying down, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing - whether it's government spying, commercial murder, or technological scandal - the general public benefits enormously. Wars are concluded, deadly products are removed the marketplace, white-collar criminals are sent to prison. The whistleblowers themselves, however, generally conclude ruined. Nearly all of them lose their careers - and in many cases their marriages and their health - as they won't back down when confronted with increasingly ferocious official retaliation. That moral stubbornness despite awful personal cost is the defining DNA of whistleblowers. The general public owes them more than we realize. In Bravehearts, Hertsgaard says the gripping, sometimes darkly comic and in the end inspiring testimonies of the unsung heroes in our time. A deeply reported, impassioned polemic, Bravehearts is a e book for citizens everywhere - especially students, professors, activists and anyone who would like to change lives on the planet around them.
