Clearer Than Truth: The Polygraph and the American Cold War
(Part of the Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Series)
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A person strapped to a polygraph machine. Nervous eyes, sweaty brow, the needle trembling up and down. Few images are more evocative of Cold War paranoia. In this first comprehensive history of the polygraph as a tool and symbol of American Cold War policies, John Philipp Baesler tells the story of a technology with weak scientific credentials that was nevertheless celebrated as a device that could expose both internal and external enemies...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1625343256
ISBN13:9781625343253
Release Date:May 2018
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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