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Unknown Knowns: State Secrets and Family Secrets
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2012
- pp. 472-491
- 10.1353/bio.2012.0042
- Article
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Three applications of memoir theory and reception—the ethics of betrayal, the calibration of transparency, and the unknown knowledge called "nescience"—illuminate the public reaction to state secrets, from the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks. The correlations between family secrets and state secrets yield new ways to understand the workings of secrecy in contemporary culture.