Legacy of Ashes

About “Legacy of Ashes”

A 2007 non-fiction work by Tim Weiner, presenting the hidden history of the CIA and explaining why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world, why nearly every director left the agency worse than he found it, and how these failures jeopardized U.S. national security. It is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the CIA's own archives, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.