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LEGACY OF ASHES - TIM WEINER KARTONIERT (TB)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • With shocking revelations that made
headlines all across the country  Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Tim Weiner gets at the
truth behind the CIA and uncovers why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse
shape than he found it  and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.   "
For anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II.” — The Washington
Post   A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • The precursor to the New York
Times bestseller The Mission   For 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 a 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 9 ll. 
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.

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