Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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 9/ll.
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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55 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 14, 2007 Type: User Review |
Easy Read
An easy read. There could have been more background on the individuals - see "The Very Best Men" by Evan Thomas.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 06, 2007 Type: User Review |
Excellent Information
This is an excellent book that gives the reader an understanding of how America failed again and again in the Cold War, and why we continue to fail today in our war against the Terrorist. 9/11 and many other disasters occur because our...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 05, 2007 Type: User Review |
A fine in-depth coverage
For the past 60 years the CIA has buried its past in secret archives, disguising its drive to change the world as much as to analyze and direct it. Tim Weiner here offers the first definitive history of the CIA, using a blend of information from...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
essential reading
If this book is true, we're in deep trouble.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 26, 2007 Type: User Review |
Interesting but they can't have messed up every single time
Legacy of Ashes covers the history of the CIA from beginning to present. And a dismal history it is. The book catalogues failure after failure and the agency's hiding of those failures behind a cloak of secrecy and tall tales of unseen victories....
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 25, 2007 Type: User Review |
required reading for high school
this book should be a required reading for high school. it questions everything our government stands for. I was disgusted, fascinated, and in some cases horrified as to what goes on in the name of America. no wonder so many countries hate us.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fascinating and Depressing
The book covers the period from the CIA's founding in the aftermath of WWII through the fallout from the intelligence failures in Iraq and it follows its operations all over the world including Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, Chile, China, Korea and,...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
Borrring
I heard Tim Weiner on NPR while driving to work and he sounded very intelligent and articulate, so I decided to purchase this book which has turned out to be informative but boring. I have yet to move past Chapter 2. Maybe I will skip and go...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 21, 2007 Type: User Review |
Lots of info, disappointing writing style
The book did provide a lot of information. But the writing is fragmented, and was not engaging. I was a little disappointed.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Oct 17, 2007 Type: User Review |
Legacy of Ashes
Great book. Wonderfully researched, organized and written. I can't imagine anyone with a interest in modern U.S. government/history not being in thrall of this frightening piece of investigative reporting.
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