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Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013
ISBN 10: 0812979230ISBN 13: 9780812979237
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Random House, 2012
ISBN 10: 1400067480ISBN 13: 9781400067480
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
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Published by Penguin, 2013
ISBN 10: 014104795XISBN 13: 9780141047959
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1846143268ISBN 13: 9781846143267
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The epic, disturbing story of how the FBI is America's real secret service 'Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out. The hand of our power should close over them at once' President Woodrow Wilson, 1919 The United States is a country founded on the ideals of democracy and freedom, yet throughout the last century it has used secret and lawless methods to destroy its enemies. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the most powerful of these forces. Following his award-winning history of the C.I.A., Legacy of Ashes, Tim Weiner has now written the first full history of the F.B.I. as a secret intellligence service. Drawn entirely from firsthand materials in the F.B.I.'s own files, Enemies brilliantly brings to life the entire story, from the cracking of anarchist cells to the prosecution of the 'war on terror'. It is the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle. Throughout the book lies the long shadow of J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the F.B.I. with an iron fist for forty-eight years. He was not a monster, but a brilliant confidence man who ruled by fear, force, and fraud. His power shaped America; his legacy haunts it. Reviews: 'Truly impressive . [Enemies] could have been put together only by a journalist of Weiner's stature' Keith Lowe, Sunday Telegraph 'A history that moves at the pace of a James Ellroy novel. But Weiner's truth is wilder even than Ellroy's fiction. Weiner sets the record straight on the FBI's first 100 years using only the Bureau's documents and oral testimony, most of which has never been seen' David Blackburn, Spectator 'An outstanding piece of work, even-handed, exhaustively researched, smoothly written and thematically timely . This is certainly the most complete book we are likely to see about the F.B.I.'s intelligence-gathering operations, from Emma Goldman to Osama bin Laden' Bryan Burrough, New York Times 'Extensively researched, admirably understated, yet terrifically entertaining' Boston Globe 'Important and disturbing . Weiner lays bare a record of embarrassing, even stunning failure, in which the bureau's lawlessness was matched only by its incompetence . [he] has done prodigious research, yet tells this depressing story with all the verve and coherence of a good spy thriller' New York Times Book Review About the author: Tim Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the New York Times, where he has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and fifteen other nations. He was based for a decade in Washington, DC, where he covered the C.I.A. and the Military - the latter topic being the subject of his Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget. He is the author of the bestselling Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, which won the 2007 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Random House, 2012
ISBN 10: 1400067480ISBN 13: 9781400067480
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Stated first edition. First printing.
Published by Random House Audio, 2012
ISBN 10: 0307933938ISBN 13: 9780307933935
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Allen Lane, London, 2012
ISBN 10: 1846143268ISBN 13: 9781846143267
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. original cloth hardcover, 537 pages, fine in fine unclipped dustwrapper. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B103.
Published by Random House, New York, 2012
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine condition blue boards with silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condiiton non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Afterword, Notes and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, from an author whose work on the Pentagon and the CIA won him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. We think of the FBI as America's police force. But secret intellignece is the Bureau's first and foremost mission. Enemies is the story of how presidents have used the FBI to conduct political warfare, and how the Bureau becaue the most powerful intelligence service the United States possesses. A small red remainder dot is contained at bottom page edge. "Here is the hidden history of America's hundred-year war on terror. The FBI has fought against terrorists, spies, anyone it deemed subversive - and sometimes American presidents. The FBI's secret intelligence and surveillance techniques have created a tug-of-war between national security and civil liberties. It is a tension that strains the very fabric of a free republic." The author is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Published by Allen Lane
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Allen Lane, 2012. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, xvii,537pp. A good copy. 9781846143267.
Published by Warner Books, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0446514527ISBN 13: 9780446514521
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 24 cm. ix, [3], 273, [3] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of four books and co-author of a fifth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. His newest book is One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon. He is a graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Weiner worked for the Times from 1993 to 2009 as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC. Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. His book Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget is based on that newspaper series. He won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for his 2007 book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. His Enemies: A History of the FBI traces the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations-from the bureau's creation in the early 20th century through its ongoing role in the war on terrorism. An investigative and in-depth report on the U.S. military's "black budget" or "cache" of funds used to finance a variety of secretive military projects and research, with much information on how the military brass interacts with the U.S. government and Congress. Derived from a Kirkus review: While it's never been much of a secret that appropriations for US intelligence services are not disclosed in federal budgets, this audit offers an informative briefing on how military and civilian agencies invoke security to keep covert policies and programs off the books. Weiner estimates that the so-called black budget peaked at an annual rate of around $36 billion during fiscal 1988 and 1989. Declassification of the outlays for a couple of hitherto hush-hush programs, he believes, will reduce sub-rosa disbursements to about $30 billion in fiscal 1991. Apart from confounding the basic canons of an open society, Weiner points out, clandestine expenditures violate explicit provisions of the Constitution. In addition, he argues, concealment makes the CIA, National Reconnaissance Office, Pentagon, and allied entities essentially unaccountable for certain of their activities. Under some circumstances, Weiner concedes, security considerations justify suppression of detailed financial data, but, unfortunately, all too many government organizations rely on subterfuge to keep dubious enterprises and cost overruns out of the public eye. Among other cases in point, the author probes the Stealth bomber, a Strangelovian satellite system known as MILSTAR, an undercover army that squandered $324 million in unvouchered funds before free-spending commanders were brought to book, and, of course, the aberrant Iran-contra initiative. On the credit side of the ledger, Weiner cites tie surreptitious arming of Afghan rebels during the Soviet occupation. Although generally effective, he cautions, this pipeline did leak badly, supplying modern weapons to Mideast radicals and drug traffickers as well as putative freedom fighters. Even with the Cold War apparently near an armistice if not an end, an eye-opening expose of how rogue operatives can and do obtain money enough to become a law unto themselves.
Published by Allen Lane / Penguin 2012, 2012
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Random House New York 2012, 2012
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket As New octavo xvii + 537pp., b/w pls., notes, index, First definitive history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations.