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Release Year
2007
ISBN
9780385514453

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
038551445X
ISBN-13
9780385514453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038298762

Product Key Features

Book Title
Legacy of Ashes : the History of the Cia
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Intelligence & Espionage, General, Security (National & International)
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Author
Tim Weiner
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
36.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Trade
LCCN
2007-004077
Reviews
"Impressively reported . . . . Terrifically entertaining." -The New York Times "The best...ever written on a case of espionage."-The Wall Street Journal "The epigrammatic style, hard edge and caustic bite of a first-rate detective novel." -Chicago Tribune "Tough, fair-minded...exceptional in the annals of spy literature for not citing a single anonymous source." -Playboy, "Tim Weiner has read widely and dug deeply to produce this marvelous and convincing history of the CIA across six decades. That every quote is also on the record is a testament to his skill and also, thankfully, to the transparency that endures in the American political system." -Steve Coll, author ofGhost Wars "Legacy of Ashes, like all first-rate histories, is not only richly informative but provocative and insightful. It is a combustible mix of deeply-researched history, solid reporting and revealing anecdotes. Tim Weiner's history of the CIA explains not merely the past but the present, laying out in fine detail the structural and philosophical flaws that have dogged the Agency from day one and which continue to leave the country unduly vulnerable." -Ted Gup, author ofThe Book of HonorandNation of Secrets "This is a fascinating, deeply scary book. With prodigious reporting and on-the-record sources, Tim Weiner shows why the CIA has done so poorly in traditional intelligence. It's a riveting tale and also a warning. America must develop the ability-and the will-to know and face the facts about the world." -Walter Isaacson, author ofBenjamin Franklin: An American LifeandEinstein: His Life and Universe This is a timely, immensely readable, and highly critical history of the CIA, culminating with the most recent catastrophic failures in Iraq." -Mark Bowden, author of BLACKHAWK DOWN
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
327.1273009
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 Prizewinning 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.
LC Classification Number
JK468.I6W44 2007

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  • by jssgag3
    22 Jan, 2019

    A good history book.

    A very readable history of the CIA. I have found myself torn between reading another chapter and getting enough sleep. I would highly recomend this book.

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    good value

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