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Legacy of Ashes. The History of the CIA
by Weiner, Tim
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- 038551445X
- ISBN 13
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New York: Doubleday, 2007. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing, with the number line beginning with 1.on the copyright page. Hardcover. A huge 702 pages, with photographs. The Pulitzer Prize Winning author, has written a marvelous and convincing history of the CIA across six decades. A combustible mix of deeply researched history, solid reporting, and revealing anecdotes. With a small first printing, the book as become increasingly scarce as thus. New. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box..
Synopsis
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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- Marvin Minkler Modern First Editions
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Legacy of Ashes. The History of the CIA
- Author
- Weiner, Tim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 038551445X
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514453
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- CIA
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