Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Library Edition By Tim Weiner, Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator) ISBN: 9781433203039 Published: 2007 Edition: Unabridged Binding: Audio

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc Description: This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For over sixty years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than fifty thousand documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA. Everything is on the record. There are no anonymous sources, no blind quotations. With shocking revelations that will make headlines, Tim Weiner gets at the truth and tells how the CIA's failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.

International Standard Book Number: 1433203030 : 9781433203039

Publisher Number: Z4365
   - Source: Blackstone Audio

Geographic Area Code: n-us---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: JK468.I6
   - Item number: W44 2007ab

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 327.1273009

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Weiner, Tim.

Title Statement
   - Title: Legacy of ashes
   - Remainder of title: [the history of the CIA] /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: by Tim Weiner.
   - Medium: [sound recording] :

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: [Ashland, Or.] :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Blackstone Audio,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: p2007.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 17 sound discs (21 1/2 hr.) :
   - Other physical details: digital ;
   - Dimensions: 4 3/4 in.

Playing Time: 213000

General Note: "Central Intelligence Agency--United States of America.": Compact disc.: In container (17 x 19 cm.): Subtitle from container.: Unabridged.

Participant or Performer Note: Read by Stefan Rudnicki.

Summary, etc.: Here 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. For sixty 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 instead. Now Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Weiner offers the first definitive history of the CIA, 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.--From publisher description.

Subject Added Entry - Corporate Name
   - Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: United States.
   - Subordinate unit: Central Intelligence Agency
   - General subdivision: History.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Intelligence service
   - General subdivision: History.
   - Geographic subdivision: United States

Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
   - Geographic name: United States
   - General subdivision: History
   - Chronological subdivision: 1945-

Index Term - Genre/Form
   - Genre/form data or focus term: Audiobooks.

Added Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Rudnicki, Stefan,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1945-