BASELESS

A major new work, a hybrid of history, journalism, and memoir, about the modern Freedom of Information Act FOIA and the horrifyi ng, decades-old government misdeeds that it is unable to demystify, from one of America's most celebrated writersEight years ago, wh ile investigating the possibility that the United States had used biological weapons in the Korean War, Nicholson Baker requested a series of Air Force documents from the early 1950s under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Years went by, and he got no respons...[Llegir més]