The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
by Hersh, Burton
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- ISBN 10
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- 9780684193489
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A group biography of the founders and leaders of the CIA shows how the agency became a secret government that goes against the American constitutional system and fosters extra-legal scandals. Hers has performed a prodigious job of research, conducting more than 100 interviews and burrowing through mounds of archives and declassified documents. His narrative runs from the 1919 Versailles conference, where the young Dulles brothers observed uncle Robert Lansing, Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state, to the Bay of Pigs operation and the frustrating retirement years of its principals. Six men occupy the foreground here: sanctimonious John Foster Dulles and his hedonistic younger brother Allen, who before their heyday as Eisenhower cold warriors were well-heeled corporate lawyers who ran interference for German firms instrumental in the Nazis' prewar rearmament; legendary OSS chief ``Wild Bill'' Donovan; Frank Wisner, ultimately CIA operations chief; New Deal diplomat William C. Bullitt; and Carmel Offie, the dandyish assistant to Bullitt and Wisner and a master of diplomatic sleight-of-hand. Hersh hopes to show how these latter-day Wilsonian ``global salvationists,'' aching to roll back the Communist menace, forged an intelligence apparatus intoxicated with the black arts of covert activities- -loosely supervised, often amateurish, sometimes harebrained. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new. Record # 383228
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- Title
- The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA
- Author
- Hersh, Burton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0684193485
- ISBN 13
- 9780684193489
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- History, American, , .
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