{"product_id":"crisis-of-conscience-isbn-9781594634444","title":"Crisis of Conscience","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy.\" — \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author Wendell Potter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud.\" — \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce specific cases of corruption. He describes the structural decay that plagues many of our most powerful institutions, putting democracy itself in danger.\" —George Soros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA David-and-Goliath story for our times: the riveting account of the heroes who are fighting a rising tide of wrongdoing by the powerful, and showing us the path forward.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a period of sweeping corruption -- and a golden age of whistleblowing. Over the past few decades, principled insiders who expose wrongdoing have gained unprecedented legal and social stature, emerging as the government's best weapon against corporate misconduct--and the citizenry's best defense against government gone bad. Whistleblowers force us to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual morality and corporate power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCrisis of Conscience,\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle--plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts--Mueller anatomizes what inspires some to speak out while the rest of us become complicit in our silence. Whistleblowers, we come to see, are the freethinking, outspoken citizens for whom our republic was conceived. And they are the models we must emulate if our democracy is to survive.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCrisis of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Tom Mueller’s authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce specific cases of corruption. He describes the structural decay that plagues many of our most powerful institutions, putting democracy itself in danger.” —\u003cb\u003eGeorge Soros\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A masterful, eye-opening account.” \u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eFast Company\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“‘Unauthorized disclosures’ by whistleblowers are the life's blood of a republic.  As many of Mueller's fascinating cases show, misplaced loyalty--exclusively to a boss or an organization or a president--can be betrayal: of the  health of consumers, of an oath to the Constitution, or of a war's worth of lives.” —\u003cb\u003eDaniel Ellsberg\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This trenchant examination of whistle-blowing is based on interviews with more than two hundred people who have exposed wrongdoing in areas such as national security, finance, and health care.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An extraordinary book, both meticulously researched and a page-turner. \u003ci\u003eCrisis of Conscience\u003c\/i\u003eis a call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy.” —\u003cb\u003eWendell Potter, author of \u003ci\u003eDeadly Spin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNation on the Take\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wide-ranging, detailed, compelling, and often alarming”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Interest \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious…powerful.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The definitive treatment of whistleblowing. Tom Mueller not only describes the ordeals and impact of those who change the course of history, but takes us on a journey through their souls.” —\u003cb\u003eTom Devine, Legal Director, Government Accountability Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A sweeping new chronicle of the nation’s whistleblowers, the difficulties they have faced and the wrongdoing they have exposed.”\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSeattle Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An antidote to hopelessness and cynicism. . . . provides exactly what is needed to prevent the hopelessness and cynicism that gives the criminals their power.”—\u003cb\u003eJohn Kostyack, Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Every engaged American who genuinely cares about the country they will be leaving to their children and grandchildren should buy Mueller’s book and read it carefully” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street on Parade \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mueller does a magnificent job of explaining how whistleblowing may be the only safety valve left against unfettered secrecy and fraud in a post-9\/11 world. A powerful call to save our ailing democracies before it’s too late.”—\u003cb\u003eAnna Myers, Executive Director, Whistleblowing International Network\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Engrossingly examines the ethics, mechanics, and reverberations of whistleblowing of all kinds, emphasizing how bitterly controversial the practice remains, posing a clash between group loyalty and individual conscience. . . . Superb reporting on brave people who decided, 'It would have been criminal for me not to act.’” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e(starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book should be taught in civics classes across the country.” —\u003cb\u003eNick Schwellenbach, Director of Investigations, Project on Government Oversight\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A spectacular book that should be in every library in the country, in addition, as part of living room discussions and town meetings, because [whistleblowing] is the ultimate protection against wrongdoing.” —\u003cb\u003eRalph Nader\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“This exceptionally timely book is sure to strike a chord with readers paying close attention to the political landscape.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Powerful … fully accessible to general readers and substantive enough for academic audiences; a must-read.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e (starred)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fascinating history of the self-deputized referees who blow the whistle on illicit activities that put Americans' freedom, money, health, and lives at risk.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e’s writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e National Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. 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