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Legacy of Ashes

The History of the CIA

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Legacy of Ashes

De: Tim Weiner
Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
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National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2007

This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 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 50,000 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 us how the CIA's failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.

©2007 Tim Weiner (P)2007 Blackstone Audio Inc. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Premio Nacional del Libro Seguridad Nacional e Internacional Política y Gobierno Estados Unidos Inteligencia y Espionaje Seguridad nacional Libertad y Seguridad Oriente Medio Irán Espionaje Guerra Guerra de Vietnam Para reflexionar Américas Militar Japón imperial Inspirador

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"Absorbing...a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy." ( Publishers Weekly)
"A timely, immensely readable, and highly critical history of the CIA, culminating with the most recent catastrophic failures in Iraq." (Mark Bowden, author of Blackhawk Down)
Comprehensive History • Detailed Research • Excellent Narration • Fascinating Revelations • Well-documented Evidence

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From the authors point of view the CIA has done little succesfully over the last 60 years. It felt like the author began with a bias for which facts were sought. I am sure there were successes, perhaps they were more secret. I would have enjoyed a book which was a bit more balanced. It is the nature of a book like this to not know enough. It made me wonder if the KGB etc, while built up by the author as being subtantially more succesful were more inept than the CIA? It is the nature of a book like this that you are left wondering what is missing from the tale.

Ashes to Ashes

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I highly recommend anyone to read this book. While it is long and admittedly I stopped listening to it for a long time, it has opened my eyes and explained in detail many historic events. While I won't give anything away in the book, I am quite honestly surprised the CIA didn't start us a war with a few nations due to failed or exposed CIA missions. But who knows, they could have and it could still be classified.

I will say that the author seems to be slanted in his views. He seems to pull out and explain many many failed missions he doesn't go into as much detail in the missions that were a success. Successful missions he lists and explains seem less than what you can count on two hands. I find it hard to believe the CIA has been that ineffective. CIA is no James Bond but if they were truly that unsuccessful then they would have been abolished long ago.

Very intresting however a little slanted

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I finished this book about a month ago, but because of its truly shocking and depressing disclosures, I have been thinking and talking about it ever since. While I would have like the author to have spent more time discussing the CIA's involvement in Latin America, the section of the book that revealed the CIA's involvement in the Middle East, past and present, was quite literally jaw dropping.

Wendy

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This is a marvelous book, well written, well narrated and one that contains a remarkable look at those pushes and pulls behind foreign policy. It is interesting to note that even as recently as last year discussion of some of the 'capers' recounted in the book would have been a prosecutable Federal offense.

Out of the ashes

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I thought this was a good book. Many interesting things are discussed in the book and many of the things I learned from this book, gave me some interesting perspectives and thoughts on management. The problem I had with this book was that I found myself continuously distracted and unable to focus. I think it's the narrator. He's okay, but a little monotone and it takes a little bit off the experience.

It's Hard to Focus on This Book

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