A01=Barrett Brown
activist manifesto
Author_Barrett Brown
award winning columnist
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cyber industrial complex
deadpan humor
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famous journalist
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humorous nonfiction
leaking intelligence documents
militant anarchist revolutionary
miscarriage of justice
notorious hackers autobiographies
obstruction of justice
prison memoirs
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Product details
- ISBN 9781250787347
- Weight: 377g
- Dimensions: 133 x 205mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In 2012 he was prosecuted for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposing a series of intelligence-community plots against reporters and the public. In My Glorious Defeats, Brown, an influential journalist who eventually became active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style, palpable anger, and conviction, he exposes corruption among press, police, and politicos, reflects on the successes and failures of the transparency movement, and provides a dispassionate overview of a newly leaked FBI campaign that has prompted him to seek political asylum from the United States while continuing to leak its secrets to the world.
But this is more than just the tale of one man’s delirious corkscrew of an international roller-coaster ride, by turns exasperating, terrifying, hilarious, and self-skewering. It’s also a personal and incisive dissection of our decaying social and political institutions in this most tumultuous and explosive of times. My Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for insurgency in the information age.
Barrett Brown is an award-winning journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Vice, The Intercept, Skeptic, Al Jazeera, The Huffington Post and other outlets. In 2016 he won the National Magazine Award in the category of columns and commentary. He was released from federal prison in November 2016 after serving four years. He applied for political asylum in 2021 in the United Kingdom, where his case is currently pending. He lives in London.
