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702 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. 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.
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- PublisherAllen Lane
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1846140641
- ISBN 13 9781846140648
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages720
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 1578
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 000573
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