Legacy of Ashes

The History of the CIA

Paperback, 752 pages

English language

Published May 6, 2008 by Anchor.

ISBN:
978-0-385-51445-3
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OCLC Number:
176950176

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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 after World War II, through its battles in the cold war and the war on terror, to its near-collapse after September 11th, 2001.

Tim Weiner’s past work on the CIA and American intelligence …

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Subjects

  • Political Freedom & Security - Intelligence
  • United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000)
  • United States - 21st Century
  • History / United States / General
  • Politics / Current Events