Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA

Attention crazy people! If you are one of those poor souls who thinks that the Central Intelligence Agency is reading your thoughts and/or manipulating your brain waves I have good news for you. You can take off your aluminum foil hat and stop trying to pull out that tooth with the tracking device.......more

I enjoyed Legacy of Ashes a little less than Enemies by the same author. Not that it is not fascinating and horrifying, just that perhaps it painted such an abysmal picture of the agency - probably deserved, I know - but did not really point to things they do right or should do better. The Central I......more

Tim Weiner deserves enormous credit for amassing such a huge and detailed body of information for us to look at and judge the CIA. He writes history the way I prefer to read it: chronologically. When characters appear before or after their moment in the limelight, Weiner tries to keep them in contex......more

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When I see, “the History of...” something, I expect the actual history of it. While this book was extremely well-researched, some claims that were provided had only a basis in conjecture and no actual proof. In addition, rather than giving the actual history of the CIA, the author only provides an 8......more