My Glorious Defeats

Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

De: Barrett Brown

Narrado por: Barrett Brown

This program is read by the author.

Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump’s America. This is his story.

After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security lapse by the intelligence contractor Stratfor in 2011. An influential journalist who is also active in the hacktivist collective Anonymous, Brown recounts exploits from a life shaped by an often self-destructive drive to speak truth to power. With inimitable wit and style, palpable anger and conviction, he exposes the incompetence and injustices that plague media and politics, reflects on the successes and failures of the transparency movement, and shows the way forward in harnessing digital communication tools for collective action.

But My Glorious Defeats is more than just the tale of the clever and hilarious Brown; it’s also a rigorously researched dissection of our decaying institutions and of human nature itself. As Brown makes clear, institutions are made of people—people with personal ambitions and personal vices—and it is people, just like him, just like us, who hold power. As optimistic as it is heartbreaking, My Glorious Defeats is an entertaining and illuminating manual for insurgency in the information age.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

©2022 Barrett Brown (P)2022 Macmillan Audio

Well Worth the Wait!!!

Excellent in all respects. Love Barrett's style of writing and wry sense of humor. Thank you, Barrett!

Truth in the face of adversity.

This book should be required reading in every journalism course in the English-speaking world. Barrett Brown (albeit a man with many self-confessed flaws) is an American hero of the same self-sacrificing caliber as Edward Snowden. This is a true horror story of what our media and the McIntelligence community has become. This book needs to go viral before our government finds a way to squash it. Trust me, they will try.