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The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold WarâA Tragedy in Three Acts
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Author:
Scott Anderson
Publisher:
Doubleday/Penguin Random House LLC
Date:
September 1, 2020
A history of the early years of the Cold War, the CIA's covert battles against communism, and the tragic consequences which still affect America and the world today.
What The Reviewers Say
... enthralling.
The Quiet Americans focuses on the lives of four engaging and adventure-seeking men, using the techniques of collective biography to tell a story at once sweeping in its scope and fascinating in its particulars.
...what situates his book in the wave of CIA revisionism is his contention that the agency’s operations branch was not full of cowboys and adventurers willing to throw any kind of spaghetti at the wall but was rather led by agents and administrators who were, for the most part, cautious and judicious, dubious about the cockamamie schemes proposed to them by people who would never have to get their own hands dirty.
... skillful and fascinating.
