Clearer Than Truth: The Polygraph and the American Cold War

by John Philipp Baesler

A person strapped to a polygraph machine. Nervous eyes, sweaty brow, the needle trembling up and down. Few images are more evocative of Cold War paranoia.

In this first comprehensive history of the polygraph as a tool and symbol of American Cold War policies, John Philipp Baesler tells the story of a technology with weak scientific credentials that was nevertheless celebrated as a device that could expose both internal and external enemies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343256
• ISBN13: 9781625343253
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"