| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Descript |
xvii, 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Nonfiction. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-671) and index. |
| Contents |
"In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007. |
| Summary |
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world, why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it, and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For 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. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, 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.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
United States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History -- 1945-
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780385514453 |
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038551445X |
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