John Rizzo Ordine dei libri

Le rêve américain n'est pas une chimère : au cours des cinquante dernières années, il s'est affranchi des chaînes de la discrimination sur les sentiers et les routes d'Alabama, aux côtés de Martin Luther King. Il a prospéré avec l'émancipation des femmes, résisté à l'arbitraire avec les révélations sur les écoutes du FBI et le scandale du Watergate, exploré de nouveaux espaces, repoussé ses limites avec l'avènement d'Internet et un foudroyant progrès technologique. Mais il a aussi vacillé et trébuché à de nombreuses reprises. Egaré avec la bipolarisation grandissante de la vie politique, malmené par la réaction social-conservatrice à l'encontre des causes afro-américaine, féministe et homosexuelle, ébranlé par la menace terroriste, dénaturé par la pratique de la torture et des écoutes massives dans le sillage des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, embourbé dans les lointains sables d'Irak, presque éradiqué avec le déclin de la classe moyenne et la crise économique dévastatrice de 2008, et à nouveau contesté par les émeutes raciales de Ferguson ou Baltimore. Rossé et ringardisé pour son obsolescence supposée, il a toujours fini par reparaître, porté par une société multiraciale et bouillonnante, en perpétuelle transformation. Indémodable et inoxydable, comme l'extraordinaire vitalité du peuple des Etats-Unis, cette cité-monde à laquelle continuent de rêver les migrants de tous horizons.

From a former top-level insider — whom the Los Angeles Times has called ‘the most influential career lawyer in CIA history’ — comes an unprecedented memoir filled with revelatory stories about the US government’s intelligence program. In 1975, fresh out of law school and working in a mind-numbing job at the US Treasury, John Rizzo took ‘a total shot in the dark’ and sent his résumé to the Central Intelligence Agency. He had no notion that, more than 30 years later, he would become a notorious public figure — both a symbol and a victim of the toxic winds swirling in post-9/11 Washington. From approving the rules that governed waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ to serving as the CIA’s spokesperson during the Iran–Contra scandal, Rizzo witnessed and participated in virtually all of the significant operations of the CIA’s modern history. He was the agency’s top lawyer in the years after the 9/11 attacks, and oversaw actions that remain the subject of intense debate today. In Company Man, Rizzo charts the CIA’s evolution over the course of his career, and offers a direct window into the organisation during some of its biggest controversies. In doing so, he has produced the most comprehensive insider account of the CIA ever written — a groundbreaking, timely, and remarkable personal history of American intelligence.

Have you ever wondered exactly how those beautiful lime or tangerine or blueberry iMacs work? Or how the operating system works on your iBook? Old and new generations of Macintosh users alike can find the answers in How Macs Work, Millennium Edition. Topics how different types of memory function, how data is stored, how FireWire transfers huge amounts of real-time digital data from consumer electronics devices like video camcorders into your Mac, increasing Mac speed and maximizing potential, how AirPort provides Internet access and creates networks on Macs without wires, and how Mac¿s new digital video editing technology can turn a VHS tape into polished digital video. The book will also explain how the Mac operating system works, including OS X ("OS Ten") the completely new implementation of the Macintosh operating system which features state-of-the-art technology throughout and an entirely new user interface called "Aqua."