Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda - Couverture souple

Powers, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1590170989 ISBN 13 : 9781590170984

Editeur : New York Review Books, 2004

Synopsis

This updated edition contains new analysis on the situation in Iraq and the war against terrorism.

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No one outside the intelligence services knows more about their culture than Thomas Powers. In this book he tells stories of shadowy successes, ghastly failures, and, more often, gripping uncertainties. They range from the CIA's long cold war struggle with its Russian adversary to debates about the use of secret intelligence in a democratic society, and urgent contemporary issues such as whether the CIA and the FBI can defend America against terrorism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Powers is the author of The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979), Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993), Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to al-Qaeda (2002; revised and expanded edition, 2004), and The Confirmation (2000), a novel. He won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1971 and has contributed to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Rolling Stone. His latest book, The Killing of Crazy Horse, won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is currently writing a memoir of his father, who once told him that the last time he met Clare Boothe Luce was in the office of Allen Dulles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York Review Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590170989
• ISBN 13: 9781590170984
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
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