George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 576 pp., $30.00.
Famous figures write memoirs for different purposes: some because they were always frustrated writers, others to settle old scores, still others to impart a bit of wisdom. George Tenet's memoir is an example of the defensive memoir, a book written to plead his case against the legion of accusations leveled against him.
