Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA - Hardcover

Prados, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566635748 ISBN 13: 9781566635745

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006

Synopsis

Safe for Democracy for the first time places the story of the CIA's covert operations squarely in the context of America's global quest for democratic values and institutions. National security historian John Prados offers a comprehensive history of the CIA's secret wars that is as close to a definitive account as is possible today.

About this title

About the Author:

John Prados is widely recognized as one of the foremost historians of national security affairs. A Columbia University Ph.D., his major books include Presidents' Secret Wars, Pentagon Games, Keepers of the Keys, Inside the Pentagon Papers, The Blood Road, Valley of Decision, The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, and Combined Fleet Decoded. Mr. Prados is a senior fellow at the National Security Archives and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Review:

This definitive history of covert action is both timely and necessary. (James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and A Pretext for War )

Prados brings together in one colorful narrative a sweeping history of America’s covert wars. (Kai Bird, coauthor of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer )

Safe for Democracy is history for adults—not White House spin but what really happened and why. (Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting and author of Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda )

Highly readable, this is intelligence history, and intelligent history at its best. (Lloyd Gardner, foreign policy specialist and author )

A comprehensive and up-to-date account. (Norman Polmar, co-author of Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage )

Prados... constructs factual narratives of events based on thorough research with minimal analytic interpretation interspersed. (Bruce Miller Blue Voice )

Prados has performed a valuable service....A comprehensive and superbly researched effort that is both engrossing and disturbing. (Booklist )

If you're studying the CIA's operations and routines you can't be without Safe for Democracy. (Midwest Book Review )

This is the most detailed single volume on the modern history of US covert operations. (CHOICE )

Prados is an extraordinarily tenacious researcher....[This book is] an impressive achievement. (Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs )

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1566635748
• ISBN 13: 9781566635745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 752