Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA

Name: Legacy of Ashes The History of the CIA
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ISBN: 9780307389008

ISBN-10: 0307389006

ISBN-13: 9780307389008

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tim Weiner

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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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/20/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.98" long x 1.73" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times where he has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the CIA and the military - the last topic being the basis for his famous book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget.