{"product_id":"legacy-of-ashes-the-history-of-the-cia-1","title":"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA","description":"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.\n\n\"For anyone interested in the CIA or American intelligence since World War II.” —The Washington Post\n\nA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • The precursor to the New York Times bestseller The Mission\n\nFor 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.”\n\nNow 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.\n\nHere 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0307389006\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0307389006.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Weiner, Tim\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41504485638202,"sku":"DBV.0307389006.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0307389006-0_2e2009fa-476e-48c9-9905-b5fa3890bdae.jpg?v=1783113535","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/legacy-of-ashes-the-history-of-the-cia-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}