Legacy of ashes
Subtitle: the history of the CIA
By: Tim Weiner ; [with a new afterword].
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 812
ISBN-13: 9780307389008
Subjects: United States. -- Central Intelligence Agency -- History; Intelligence service -- United States -- History; United States -- History -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-778) and index.
Table of contents: title: "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953; title: "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961; title: Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968; title: "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977; title: Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993; title: The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.; title: Intelligence must be global and totalitarian; title: The logic of force; title: Fight fire with fire; title: The most secret thing; title: A rich blind man; title: They were suicide missions; title: A vast field of illusion; title: We have no plan; title: CIA's greatest single triumph; title: Bomb repeat bomb; title: And then we'll have a storm; title: We ran it in a different way; title: Wishful blindness; title: Ham-handed operations of all kinds; title: A very strange war; title: He was lying down and he was lying up; title: Nobody knew what to do; title: We had also fooled ourselves; title: We'd be delighted to trade those missiles; title: Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we?; title: I thought it was a conspiracy; title: An ominous drift; title: More courage than wisdom; title: The beginning of a long slide downwards; title: We knew then that we could not win the war; title: A political H-bomb; title: Track down the foreign communists; title: What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley?; title: USG wants a military solution; title: We are going to catch a lot of hell; title: To change the concept of a secret service; title: A classic fascist ideal; title: The CIA would be destroyed; title: Saigon signing off; title: Ineffective and scared; title: He sought to overthrow their system; title: We were just plain asleep; title: A free-lance buccaneer; title: In a dangerous way; title: He was running a great risk; title: A con man's con man; title: To think the unthinkable; title: What are we going to do when the wall comes down?; title: We had no facts; title: Why in the world didn't we know?; title: We're in trouble; title: The threat could not be more real; title: The dark side; title: A grave mistake; title: The burial ceremony.