THE CIA-AN IMPERIAL WORLD
Εκδότης Basic Books , ISBN 9781399816861
'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . .
Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . .
I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. In 1947, the United States created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence, but within a few years the Agency was engaged in other operations - bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War. Drawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike.
Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past. Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.
Περίληψη
'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . .
Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . .
I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas. In 1947, the United States created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence, but within a few years the Agency was engaged in other operations - bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War. Drawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike.
Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past. Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Eκδότης Basic Books
- ISBN 9781399816861
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100093467
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2025
- Σελίδες 384
- Διαστάσεις
- Βάρος 400 gr
