Legacy of Ashes (OM): The History of the CIA
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Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been a byword for everything that is sinister and ruthless about America's projection of power during the Cold War and with the 'war on terror'. There have been few major political events around the world in which the hidden hand of the Agency has not been seen. In countless movies and books, the CIA has been shown as decisive, brilliant and in control of its own secret world: the image of omnipotence.But this is an illusion. In reality, the CIA has been incompetent, naive, chaotic, and a danger to American interests for sixty years.LEGACY OF ASHES is both a horrifying and a richly enjoyable book. Tim Weiner's immense research reveals a startlingly consistent level of failure. The general dismay at the CIA's failure to see the fall of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War, the invasion of Kuwait, the events of 9/11, its wholly false assessment of Saddam's WMD and its role in the 'rendition' of innocent suspects implies that it has fallen from some bygone golden age. LEGACY OF ASHES makes clear that the CIA has always been a blundering, ruinously incapable organization, with each decade providing its own low points. LEGACY OF ASHES is as gripping and powerful a narrative as its fictional movie counterparts, but the story it has to tell is a lot less comforting.
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Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times where he has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the 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.
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- EditorialAllen Lane
- Año de publicación2008
- ISBN 10 1846140641
- ISBN 13 9781846140648
- EncuadernaciónRústica
- Número de páginas720
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Allen Lane / Penguin
(2007)
ISBN 10: 1846140641
ISBN 13: 9781846140648
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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Allen Lane, Penguin, 2007. Softcover (15 x 23 cm), xvii, 702 pages (notes & index). ISBN: 9781846140648. Very Good condition. The wraps are bumped, scuffed. Some creasing, most notably along top edge & corners. Some soiling, predominately along bottom edge. Unknown clear substance (glue?, approx 2x2cm) on front cover, top corner near spine. Tight binding, clean textblock. "Since its creation in 1947, the CIA has been a byword for everything that is sinister and ruthless about America's power during the Cold War and the 'war on terror'. In countless movies and books, it has been shown as decisive, brilliant and in control of its own secret world: the image of omnipotence. But this is an illusion. In reality, the CIA has been incompetent, naive and a danger to American interests for sixty years. In 'Legacy of Ashes' Tim Weiner draws on years of research to reveal a startlingly consistent level of failure. Even the CIA's inability to foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the events of 9/11, its false assessment of Saddam's WMD and its role in the 'rendition' of innocent suspects are shown not as a fall from some bygone golden age, but as part of the history of ruinously incapable organization." Weight (before packaging): 940g. Nº de ref. del artículo: 1578
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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(2007)
ISBN 10: 1846140641
ISBN 13: 9781846140648
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Descripción Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slight bumping of edges. Foxing inside covers. Slight tanning of pages. Inscribed fly leaf. 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. Nº de ref. del artículo: 000573
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