Hugh Wilford
The CIA


BoklivArtikelnr: 9781399816861

Historisk analys av CIA:s roll i amerikansk och global politik. Pocketutgåva, Hachette UK Distribution.

  • Utforskar CIA:s roll i skapandet av ett nytt imperium.

  • Analyserar hur USA:s utrikespolitik förändrades efter 1947.

  • Utgiven i pocketformat med 384 sidor.

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Bindning: Pocket

Bokförlag: Hachette UK Distribution
Omfång: 384 | Språk: Engelska

Förlagets information

'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.

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