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Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
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Legacy of Ashes
All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth.
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Winner of the National Book Award
Legacy of Ashes is described as "an extraordinary story" that "reads like tragedy and thriller." Impeccably sourced, utterly absorbing, dazzling and very, very dark, according to Time Out.
The all-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective image of the CIA, as portrayed in countless films and novels, is misleading. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organisation. In a story of botched coups, missed targets, lost operatives and fatal errors, Tim Weiner reveals how the CIA now poses a threat not only to the security of the US but the world.
'Combines thrilling storytelling with terrifying revelations' - Simon Sebag Montefiore, New Statesman, Books of the Year
'Weiner's riveting history of the CIA contains dozens of jaw-dropping incidents . . . astonishing' - Mail on Sunday
'Timely, immensely readable, and highly critical' - Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down
'Marvellous . . . that every quote is also on the record is a testament to his skill' - Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars
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Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes is lauded as a gripping and meticulously sourced history of the CIA, offering dark and dazzling insights that read like both tragedy and thriller. It combines thrilling storytelling with astonishing revelations, portraying the CIA in a way that challenges traditional spy narratives. The book is noted for its timely, critical perspective and the rigorous on-the-record documentation of its source material.
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ISBN: 9780241956236
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2012
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Illustration: 8pp
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 37.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 579g
Pages: 832
About the Author
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. His latest book is Legacy of Ashes- The History of the CIA (2007).
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