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This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For over sixty years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence. Legacy of Ashes is based on more than fifty thousand documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA. Everything is on the record. There are no anonymous sources, no blind quotations. With shocking revelations that will make headlines, Tim Weiner gets at the truth and tells how the CIA's failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security.

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"""[An] absorbing study...Weiner musters extensive archival research and interviews with top-ranking insiders...to present the agency's saga as an exercise in trying to change the world without bothering to understand it...The result is a credible and damning indictment of American intelligence policy."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)"" ""Deeply researched...Impressively studied...Provides new insights and details."" -- ""New York Times"" ""For an important book like this one, it's important for an audiobook narrator to have a certain gravitas, and Rudnicki has plenty...Rudnicki is one of the best narrators in the business and he's in top form here--Legacy of Ashes is one of the best audiobooks of the year."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred audio review)"" ""Narrator Stefan Rudnicki's attention to the many quotes enhances the text...His comfort with many languages strengthens the continuity of the production."" -- ""AudioFile"" ""Similar to first-rate fiction, which is generally driven by narrative thrust and strong characters, good nonfiction usually has a unique and identifiable tone. It's the audiobook narrator's job to suss out that tone, and to locate its counterpart in his own vocal repertoire. I found Tim Weiner's tone to be one of profound authority tempered with a delicious sardonic edge. It made the book great fun to read."" -- ""Stefan Rudnicki, narrator"" ""The best...ever written on a case of espionage."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""The epigrammatic style, hard edge and caustic bite of a first-rate detective novel."" -- ""Chicago Tribune"" ""Tough, fair-minded...Exceptional in the annals of spy literature for not citing a single anonymous source."" -- ""Playboy"""

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"Tim Weiner has won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting and writing on secret intelligence and national security. As a correspondent for The New York Times, he covered the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington and terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, and other nations. Enemies is his fourth book. His Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA won the National Book Award and was acclaimed as one of the year's best books by The New York Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, Time, and many other publications. The Wall Street Journal called Betrayal ""the best book ever written on a case of espionage."" He is now working on a history of the American military. Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and an award-winning narrator who has won several Audie Awards, as well as more than twenty-five Earphones Awards, and been named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices."

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