Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA - Tapa dura

Highly readable, this is intelligence history, and intelligent history at its best.--Lloyd Gardner, foreign policy specialist and author Prados... constructs factual narratives of events based on thorough research with minimal analytic interpretation interspersed.--Bruce Miller "Blue Voice " Prados is an extraordinarily tenacious researcher....[This book is] an impressive achievement.--Lawrence D. Freedman "Foreign Affairs " A well-researched, detailed, and vivid account....Prados proves a master of his subject.--Dimitris Keridas "Poliltical Science Quarterly " "Safe for Democracy" is history for adults not White House spin but what really happened and why.--Thomas Powers This definitive history of covert action is both timely and necessary.--James Bamford, author of "The Puzzle Palace", "Body of Secrets", and "A Pretext for War" A comprehensive and up-to-date account.--Norman Polmar, co-author of "Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage" Safe for Democracy is history for adults not White House spin but what really happened and why.--Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting and author of "Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Factual and capacious...if anyone writes hereafter about CIA's covert actions without consulting Prados, the result will be woefully deficient.--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Special Assistant to President Kennedy and author of "A Thousand Days" Prados brings together in one colorful narrative a sweeping history of America s covert wars.--Kai Bird, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Safe for Democracy" for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.