Legacy of Ashes (National Book Award Winner): The History of the CIA (Spiral bound)
Legacy of Ashes (National Book Award Winner): The History of the CIA (Spiral bound)
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Legacy of Ashes (National Book Award Winner): The History of the CIA (Spiral bound)
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About The Book
About The Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • With shocking revelations that made headlines all across the country, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security."For anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II.” —The Washington PostA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • The precursor to the New York Times bestseller The MissionFor years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, “a legacy of ashes.”Now Pulitzer Prize–winning author Tim Weiner offers a definitive history of the CIA—and everything is on the record. LEGACY OF ASHES is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence. It takes the CIA from its creation after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after 9/ll.Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.
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Publisher: Vintage
Author: Weiner, Tim
ISBN-13: 9780307389008
Page Count: 848
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