The Brennan Center for Justice and NYU School of Law present:
Democracy in the Dark
A Book Party with Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 | 6:00 p.m.
Reception and Book Signing to Follow.
Lipton Hall, NYU School of Law
108 West Third Street
New York, NY 10012
From George Washington hiding inadequate military supplies during the Revolutionary War to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering in the electronic age, there has always been a tension between secrecy and American democracy. For the first time, the full range of American history is viewed through the lens of secrecy in Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy (The New Press, 2015). Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.’s important new book illuminates one central question: how much secrecy does good governance require?
Join the Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law, and some of the nation’s leading non-profit organizations for a candid discussion with the author, hailed by Publisher’s Weekly as “an exceptionally well-positioned observer and participant in the contentious history of government secrecy,” whose effort to help us strike the right balance between democracy and secrecy is, according to Professor Geoffrey R. Stone, “his greatest—and truly insightful—contribution.”
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If you have any questions, please contact Brennan Center Events Manager, Jafreen Uddin, at jafreen.uddin@nyu.edu or 646.292.8345.
This event is co-hosted by the following organizations:
