Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For over sixty years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than fifty thousand documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA. Everything is on the record. There are no anonymous sources, no blind quotations. With shocking revelations that will make headlines, Tim Weiner gets at the truth and tells how the CIA's failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.Tim Weiner has written five books. His history of the CIA, Legacy of Ashes, earned the National Book Award. He won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his reporting on hidden government initiatives. He covered war and terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, and other countries as a journalist for The New York Times. He is an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton and runs the Carey Institute's nonfiction residency program in upstate New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780307389008 |
| ISBN 10 | 0307389006 |
| Title | Legacy of Ashes |
| Author | Tim Weiner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2008-05-20 |
| Number of pages | 848 |
| Prizes | Winner of L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2007, Winner of National Book Awards 2007, Short-listed for Lionel Gelber Prize 2008, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2007 |
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