
Legacy of Ashes
The History of the CIA
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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Tim Weiner
National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2007
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 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 50,000 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 us how the CIA's failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.
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Critic reviews
"A timely, immensely readable, and highly critical history of the CIA, culminating with the most recent catastrophic failures in Iraq." (Mark Bowden, author of Blackhawk Down)
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Frightening
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What did you like best about Legacy of Ashes? What did you like least?
This book is hard to read for someone who doesn't know about some of the times and eras that the book uses as a backdrop. I really didn't get into the book until I got to the Kennedy era.Any additional comments?
The title says it all. With all the movies, tv series, and even history books it hard to think of the CIA as something other than all powerful and all knowing. Tim Weiner does a great job explaning events in such a way that there's little question to the validity that we are living with a "Legacy of Ashes".Like being told Santa isn't real
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Informative but not insightul
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slow
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Would you listen to Legacy of Ashes again? Why?
Absolutely. Gripping story that never gets boring.What does Stefan Rudnicki bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
His voice just sucked me right into the story. He did a great job.Any additional comments?
After listening to John C. Dvorak constantly talk about this book on the No Agenda Show, I broke down and got it, and boy am I glad I did. It is an excellent story of an organization misused by the powers that be for their own purposes.It is one of the few books I just could not stop listening too, I had my earbuds in non stop for the 3 days it took me to consume it.
This ranks as one of my top 10 Audible favorites, and should be a must read for everyone.
Outstanding history of the CIA
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We need to do better and be better or America will go the way of all the other arrogant countries in history.
Stellar info
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Very interesting
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Fantastic Read
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You’re Out if Your Element
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Time gives perspective, and is a luxury we are afforded by the author’s hard work.
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