Central Intelligence Agency Books & Reviews

Doctrinal Faith

Colin Dueck | May 01, 2007
Unflinching loyalty to the Bush Doctrine leads Robert Kaufman astray in his study of American foreign policy—and Truman, Reagan and Bush do not make a three-of-kind.

Field Marshal McNamara

Andrew J. Bacevich | May 01, 2007
Managing the Pentagon and managing wars are two different things, a lesson Robert McNamara learned the hard way.

Kennan, Character and Country

Sean R. Singer | Apr 26, 2007
John Lukacs offers an intimate portrait of one of America's great strategists in George Kennan.

Big Ideas, Big Problems

Stefan Halper | Mar 01, 2007
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.

How to Fight Terrorism

Daniel Byman | Mar 01, 2005
Radical Islam is its own worst enemy. It will marginalize itself unless the United States overreacts.

A People of Extraordinary Contradictions

John Lukacs | Sep 01, 2003
A history of the Hungarians, by a Hungarian, for everyone.

The Pope's Divisions

James H. Billington | Mar 01, 2000
The Peope who proved Stalin wrong.

You Had To Be There

Walter Laqueur | Dec 01, 1999
A legacy besmirched: an ill-informed portrait of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

The Bureaucrat Spy, Review of Robert M. Gates' From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

Russell Jack Smith | Jun 01, 1996
Robert M. Gates entered CIA toward the end of its best years, and the history he recounts of the ensuing twenty-odd years is strewn with untidy crises and a mix of CIA successes and disasters, brilliant insights, and woeful miscalls. Gates describ

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