The CIA and American democracy /
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| Author / Creator: | Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri, author. |
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2003] ©2003 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 338 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275188 |
| Summary: | 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.<br> Praise for the earlier editions:<br> "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<br> "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<br> "Judicious and reasonable. . . . A sophisticated study that should challenge us to take a more serious view about how our democracy formulates its foreign policy."--David P. Calleo, New York Times Book Review<br> A brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency."--Leonard Bushkoff, Christian Science Monitor<br> "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 338 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300208504 0300208502 0300099487 9780300099485 0300077378 9780300077377 |