Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA - Softcover

Prados, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566638232 ISBN 13: 9781566638234

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, 2009

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Review:

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 "

Highly readable, this is intelligence history, and intelligent history at its best.--Lloyd Gardner, foreign policy specialist and author

A well-researched, detailed, and vivid account....Prados proves a master of his subject.--Dimitris Keridas "Poliltical Science Quarterly "

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

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

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

A comprehensive and up-to-date account.--Norman Polmar, co-author of Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage

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

Prados has performed a valuable service....A comprehensive and superbly researched effort that is both engrossing and disturbing.--Booklist

About the Author:

John Prados is widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of national security affairs. A Columbia University Ph.D., his major books include Presidents' Secret Wars, Pentagon Games, Keepers of the Keys, Inside the Pentagon Papers, The Blood Road, Valley of Decision, The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, and Combined Fleet Decoded. Mr. Prados is a senior fellow at the National Security Archives and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1566638232
• ISBN 13: 9781566638234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736