Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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, â€œa legacy of ashes.â€

Now Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIAâ€”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 Weinerâ€™s past work on the CIA and American intelligence was hailed as â€œimpressively reportedâ€ and â€œimmensely entertainingâ€ in The New York Times.

The Wall Street Journal called it â€œtruly extraordinary . . . the best book ever written on a case of espionage.â€ 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Doubleday
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-06-28
UnitCount 109
EANs 9780385514453

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Doubleday
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-06-28
UnitCount	109
EANs	9780385514453

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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