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Autore |
Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri |
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The CIA and American democracy / / Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones |
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New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2003] |
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©2003 |
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0-300-05017-8 |
0-300-20850-2 |
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Edizione |
[Third edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-318) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- PROLOGUE: September 11 and the Post-Cold War CIA -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE LESSONS OF AMERICAN HISTORY -- 2. THE BIRTH OF THE CIA -- 3. THE MISTS OF BOGOTA -- 4. SURVIVING MCCARTHY -- 5. THE GOLDEN AGE OF OPERATIONS -- 6. INTELLIGENCE IN THE GOLDEN AGE -- 7. PRESIDENTIAL SHAKE-UP -- 8. PRESIDENTIAL NEGLECT -- 9. HELMS, JOHNSON, AND COSMETIC INTELLIGENCE -- 10. NIXON, KISSINGER, AND THE FRUITS OF MANIPULATION -- 11. DEMOCRACY'S INTELLIGENCE FLAP -- 12. RESTRAINED INTELLIGENCE AND THE HALF-WON PEACE -- 13. IGNORING THE CREDIBLE -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones's engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.Praise for the earlier editions:"I have read many books on the CIA, but none more searching and still dispassionate. Nor would I have believed that a book of such towering scholarship could still be so lucid and exciting to read."-Daniel Schorr"This is one of the best short histories of the CIA in print, up-to-date and based on a wide range of sources."-Walter Laqueur"Judicious and reasonable. . . . A sophisticated study that |
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should challenge us to take a more serious view about how our democracy formulates its foreign policy."-David P. Calleo, New York Times Book ReviewA brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency."-Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor"Subtle and crisply written. . . . A book remarkable for its clarity and lack of bias."-William W. Powers, Jr., International Herald Tribune, Paris |
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