52/52: The Quiet Americans, by Scott Anderson
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A gripping chronicle of the first 10ish years of the CIA, revealing that the agency has long had much better PR than success in its operations. A particularly grim work for its diminishing of the reputations of John Foster Dulles and Dwight Eisenhower, whose many mistakes lengthened the Cold War by decades.
Book: 47 of 52
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