LEGACY OF ASHES: THE HISTORY OF THE CIA by Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize - This is a timely, immensely readable, and highly critical history of the CIA, culminating with the most recent catastrophic failures in Iraq....Weiner does an inestimable service with this comprehensive argument that the system is not just broken, it has never really worked. -- Mark Bowden, author of BLACKHAWK DOWN
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LEGACY OF ASHES reviewed by Michael Beschloss in The New York Times.

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