Very Best Men The Daring Early Years of the CIA

Name: Very Best Men The Daring Early Years of the CIA
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ISBN: 9781416537977

ISBN-10: 141653797X

ISBN-13: 9781416537977

Edition: 2007

Authors: Evan Thomas

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The Very Best Menis the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet threat. Within the inner circles of Washington, they were regarded as the best and the brightest. They planned and acted to keep the country out of war -- by stealth and "political action" and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not, must not be allowed to do. In the end,…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 10/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Newsweek Editor-at-LargeEvan Thomashas written more than a hundred cover stories. His other books include a biography of Robert Kennedy and, most recently, theNew York TimesbestsellerSea of Thunder. The reporters on the election project team areEleanor Clift, one of Washington’s best-known political reporters and a regular on The McLaughlin Group, Washington correspondentDarren Briscoe,Mike Hastings,Nick Summers, andKatie Connolly.



Preface


Introduction



Crusader: "Fair play? That's out"



Rollback: "We've got a job to do! Don't hold us up!"



The Cavalier: "The culture was wild"



Empire Building: "I don't know if I can keep this up"



The War Lover: "I think he did the right thing, don't you?"



A Mind of His Own: "You do it to fight Providence"



Running the World: "Dools, Dools, do you take us for fools?"



Coup: "How are you going to keep this a secret?"



The Spy War: "Jesus Christ, it's been blown!"



Collapse: "Sos Sos Sos...The Fighting is Very Close Now..."



Brother's Keeper: "If you knew what you'd done to me..."



High Flier: "Was it really wise to do that the first time?"



A Clandestine World: "I took to covert action like a duck to water"



Plots: "We thought of Daddy as James Bond"



Shoot-Down: "Beware the lesson of Icarus..."



Plausible Deniability: "They were mad dogs"



Invasion: "He was building a tar baby"



Fiasco: "What did we buy with all that hocus-pocus?"



Secret Armies: "We gave them this! We gave them that! How can they not win?"



Hard Target: "Bobby wanted boom and bang..."



Blowback: "Now we'll never know"



Casualties of War: "He was full of rue"


Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Notes


Index