Tim Weiner (6 kníh)
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Tim Weiner Dějiny CIA CZTim Weiner je reportér listu New York Times. Má za sebou tři knihy a Pullitzerovu cenu za jednu z nich. Už v prvních dvou - Bianko šek (o černých fondech Pentagonu) a Zrada (o případu amerického špiona Aldricha Amese) - se pouštěl na velmi horkou půdu. V zatím poslední své knize, věnované dějinám CIA, vydané v r. 2007, v této tradici pokračuje. Psát dějiny jakékoli tajné služby je krajně nesnadné. Oficiálních údajů…
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Tim Weiner Enemies ENThe epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. 'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919. The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The…
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Tim Weiner Enemies ENSuch creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919. The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces.Following his…
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Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ENFor the last 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. Its failures have handed us, in the words of President Eisenhower, a legacy of ashes. Now Pulitzer Prize winning author Tim Weiner offers the first definitive…
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Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ENAll-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything…
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Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ENFrom Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Is the Central Intelligence Agency a bulwark of freedom against dangerous foes, or a malevolent conspiracy to spread American imperialism? A little of both, according to this absorbing study, but, the author concludes, it is mainly a reservoir of incompetence and delusions that serves no one's interests well. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times correspondent Weiner musters…
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