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The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 9781982106416
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982106417
ISBN-13
9781982106416
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9050391364
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spymasters : How the Cia Directors Shape History and the Future
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Political, Security (National & International)
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Better than anyone, Chris Whipple knows how to root out the secrets buried deeply in the federal bureaucracy...When he gives the most secret of our agencies a good shaking the headline stories and secrets come tumbling out...This is the CIA with the bark off, and Washington reporting at its best." --Bob Schieffer, CBS News
Dewey Decimal
353.170973
Synopsis
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers , an "engaging...richly textured" ( The New York Times ), behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to run the world's most powerful intelligence agency. "The best book about the CIA I've ever read...one hell of a story" (Christopher Buckley). With unprecedented access to more than a dozen individuals who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence service, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities--spying, espionage, and covert action--take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a counterforce against rogue presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms's refusal to conceal Richard Nixon's criminality and through the Trump presidency when a CIA whistleblower ignited impeachment proceedings and armed insurrectionists assaulted the US Capitol. Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has been a powerful player on the world stage, operating largely in the shadows to protect American interests. For The Spymasters , Whipple conducted extensive, exclusive interviews with nearly every living CIA director, pulling back the curtain on the world's elite spy agencies and showing how the CIA partners--or clashes--with counterparts in Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. Topics covered in the book include attempts by presidents to use the agency for their own ends; simmering problems in the Middle East and Asia; rogue nuclear threats; and cyberwarfare. A revelatory, well-researched history, The Spymasters recounts seven decades of CIA activity and elicits predictions about the issues--and threats--that will engage the attention of future operatives and analysts. Including eye-opening interviews with George Tenet, John Brennan, Leon Panetta, and David Petraeus, as well as those who've recently departed the agency, this is a timely, essential, and important contribution to current events.
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- k***m (296)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchasePerfect condition
- k***u (208)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseBook is a used library book in decent condition. Shipped very fast.
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