Legacy of ashes : the history of the CIA
Record details
- ISBN: 038551445X
- ISBN: 9780385514453
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Physical Description:
702 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 6. The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007 -- 44. We had no facts -- 45. Why in the world didn't we know? -- 46. We're in trouble -- 47. The threat could not be more real -- 48. The dark side -- 49. A grave mistake -- 50. The burial ceremony -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. For 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 instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, 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.--From publisher description. |
Target Audience Note: | Adult Follett Library Resources |
Awards Note: | National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2007. |
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Subject: | United States. Central Intelligence Agency. History Intelligence service United States History United States History 1945- |
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- 32 of 32 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | 327.1273 W (Text) | 32518108832935 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Ansonia Public Library | 327.1273 WEI (Text) | 34045105766666 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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