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Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner📕 Legacy of Ashes : Read More 📕
- Awards: National Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007), Lionel Gelber Prize Nominee (2008), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2007)
- Release date: July 1, 2007
- ISBN: 9780385514453 (038551445X)
- Places: United States of America
- Characters: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover
- Genres: history, politics, espionage, war, historical
- Author: Tim Weiner
- Language: english
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Format: hardcover, 702 pages
About The Book
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 September 11th, 2001.
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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