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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA Paperback - 2008
by Tim Weiner
For the last 60 years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA--and everything is on the record.
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For the last sixty 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 the first 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.Tim Weiner's past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as "impressively reported" and "immensely entertaining" in The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal called it "truly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage." 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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- Title Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
- Author Tim Weiner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 848
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York
- Date 2008-05-20
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780307389008 / 0307389006
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 1.7 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 4.32 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1945-, United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008273687
- Dewey Decimal Code 327.127
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- New York Times Book Review, 06/01/2008, Page 52
- New Yorker (The), 11/10/2014, Page 75
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