Tim Weiner, Author . Doubleday $27.95 (702p) ISBN 978-0-385-51445-3
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...
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Tim Weiner, Author Grand Central Publishing $21.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-39275-4
The origin, growth and uses of the Pentagon's secret treasury are detailed here--Weiner examines the Stealth bomber, the MILSTAR satellite system and a virtual hidden army within the U.S. Army. ``This hard-hitting expose of power out of control . . .
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Tim Weiner. Holt, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-1-62779-083-3
Weiner, a National Book Award winner for Legacy of Ashes, pulls no punches in his devastating account of Nixon's presidency, drawing on documents declassified in the last seven years. As his depressing introductory note states, "For those who lived...
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Tim Weiner. Holt, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-627-79085-7
In this colorful and richly detailed account, journalist Weiner (One Man Against the World) charts 75 years of Russia-U.S. antagonisms, beginning at the end of WWII and culminating with present-day Kremlin stratagems to “subvert the United States,...
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Tim Weiner, Author, David Johnston, Author, David Johnson, With Random House (NY) $25 (308p) ISBN 978-0-679-44050-5
This New York Times reporting team's taut, riveting, remarkably vivid account of former CIA agent Aldrich Ames's treason, arrest and 1994 conviction as a mole for Moscow reads like a spy thriller. The Wisconsin-born son of a history professor-turned-
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Tim Weiner, Author, Stefan Rudnicki, Read by , read by Stefan Rudnicki. Blackstone Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-0199-8
Pulitzer Prize–winner Weiner combed through the history books and recently declassified records to offer up this fascinating, comprehensive and sometimes appalling history of the Central Intelligence Agency. Weiner documents everything from...
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Tim Weiner. Mariner, $35 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-327018-3
In this triumphant follow-up to Legacy of Ashes, National Book Award winner Weiner continues his history of the CIA. He begins at the turn of the 21st century, when some believed the agency, sunk into post–Cold War listlessness, “was at the point of
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