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By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Thursday July 17, 2008

Legacy of Ashes won the 2007 National Book Award for Nonfiction and is a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.

Photo Credit: Knopf Publishing Group

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July 22, 2008 at 6:40 am
(1) The Yorkshire Sceptic says:

A book about cricket *and* the C.I.A.? Fascinating! :-)

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