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Legacy of ashes : (Record no. 74685)

010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2007004077
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780385514453
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 038551445X
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)82367780
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.1273009
Item number 9
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
-- 74685
-- 74686
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 327.1273009 Wei
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Weiner, Tim. frey50
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Legacy of ashes :
Remainder of title the history of the CIA /
Statement of responsibility, etc Tim Weiner.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Doubleday,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c2007.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 702 p., [8] p. of plates :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
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.
610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Central Intelligence Agency
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intelligence service
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1945-
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Koha item type 300 - 399
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