

Charlie Wilson's War
Author: George Crile
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 20 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, History
Author: George Crile
Narrator: Christopher Lane
Unabridged: 20 hr 27 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/25/2005
Categories: Nonfiction, History
George Crile (1945–2006) was an award-winning documentary filmmaker and veteran producer for 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II. Charlie Wilson’s War began as a 60 Minutes profile in 1988.
This was a great book. I am not particularly into politics but this book was fascinating. Well-written and well-read.
After reading this book, I look at the news. The same problems are still there! I wonder when our government and all of it's agencies are going to be on the same page!? I love my country but ???????
Charlie Wilson's War is a chilling tale of how a few determined people can undermine all existing law, use their positions of power and influence to get unseen funds allocated, and pursue a major war without the approval of the American people. Crile was clearly enamored of Wilson, regarding him as......more
... creating along the ISIS and probably the rest of forces behind the 9/11 horror... Niiice. How to you really manage to get over people spending billions of tax-payers' money to promote terrorism shit? Read this and see how the author manages to endorse these actions in this research. Q: 9/11 was a......more
Charlie Wilson's war is indispensible for anyone who wants to understand the roots of our current war in Afghanistan. It's also a primer on how Washington worked in the 1970s-1980s under Reagan, Tip O'Neill, and others. Congressman Charlie Wilson and the CIA funneled billions of dollars worth of mon......more
This book was too long and poorly written. It repeated itself and skipped around quite a bit. It took me a very long time to get through this, despite being interested in the material. The author would have done better with a condensed book that flowed better. The story is over dramatized and extrod......more
During the height of the Cold War, the United States attempted to keep the spread of communism at bay throughout the world without actively engaging in real warfare with the Soviet Union. Certain hot spots, such as Southeast Asia and Central America, were the primary focus of the U.S. military and i......more