amazon.com - 1/7/2009
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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Wright, a New Yorker writer, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terrorism. He begins with the observation that, despite an impressive record of terror and assassination, post WWarII, Islamic ...
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Hugh Hewitt: In Defense of the Panetta Pick
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Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA is an amazing though controversial book. I am listening to it again, and recommend the interview I conducted with Weiner from September 2007 as an intro to the book, and as background to the discussion of the selection of Leon Panetta to lead the CIA. Many fans of the CIA blasted Weiner's book as a one-sided assault on a crucial arm of our national security infrastructure that passed far too quickly over the Agency's many successes. Others argued that because of the nature of the CIA, the public, and even serious historians like Weiner, will only know about the organization's failures. I think the book is an invaluable ...
Hugh Hewitt: In Defense of the Panetta Pick
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA is an amazing though controversial book. I am listening to it again, and recommend the interview I conducted with Weiner from September 2007 as an intro to the book, and as background to the discussion of the selection of Leon Panetta to lead the CIA. Many fans of the CIA blasted Weiner's book as a one-sided assault on a crucial arm of our national security infrastructure that passed far too quickly over the Agency's many successes. Others argued that because of the nature of the CIA, the public, and even serious historians like Weiner, will only know about the organization's failures. I think the book is an invaluable ...
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