Book review: ‘On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History,’ by Nicholas Basbanes 

What proves most fascinating here isn’t the making of paper but the booming industry of “secure document destruction.”

Basbanes reviews the shredding history of the Pentagon Papers, the Enron and Iran-Contra scandals, and the 6 million files on the private lives of East German citizens gathered by the Stasi prior to 1989, and concludes:

“If there is a lesson to be learned in all of this it is that total security is assured only by burning or,” in the instance of America’s National Security Agency, “on-site pulping.”

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