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by: Bob Woodward List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.11 You Save: $4.84 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Dewey Decimal Number: 320 EAN: 9780743274036 ISBN: 0743274032 Label: Simon & Schuster Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: July 01, 2005 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Sales Rank: 326389 Studio: Simon & Schuster Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Veil is the story of the covert wars that were waged in Central America, Iran and Libya in a secretive atmosphere and became the centerpieces and eventual time bombs of American foreign policy in the 1980s. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Clique That Couldn't Spy StraightWhen Woodward wrote this book in 1987, it was his first truly up-to-the-minute muckraking exercise since "All the President's Men" and "The Final Days" with Carl Bernstein back during the Watergate years. "Veil" covers the activities of the U.S. intelligence apparatus in the 1980s, leading up to the Iran-Contra scandal that was just breaking as Woodward finished up the book. At the time, Woodward was probably trying to unleash an in-depth investigation on a breaking story for the benefit of concerned ... Read More Rating:  - The Veil...dive into the secret world of William Casey's CIAThis is an excellent read where Bob Woodward with his astonishing access to sources deep inside the White House and CIA reveals the secret wars conducted by the CIA led by William Casey (1981-1987) during the Regan years. From Nicaragua to Afghanistan to the Iran-contra scandal Casey was involved in and controlled it all. The repercussions of his feverishly misguided policies and the secrets he kept from the U.S. Congress would have drastic effects on future generations of Americans and the world. One ... Read More Rating: - CIA Internal WarsThis book is primarily about the war of words inside the government concerning how things should be done. Because of this, it was different than I had expected. Rating: - Confessions of a CIA wordpusher?Woodward's story of Casey's years at the helm of U.S. state terrorism centers around Casey and his British-bred, WWII-honed perspective used to justify government covert actions that include torture, disappearance, and death. We learn that America did not begin her slide down the slope to Nazi Germany with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq in the Twenty-First Century. It began when Hitler's faults began to take revenge on the Allies through the creation of the OSS in London, predecessor to CIA. ... Read More Rating:  - What Casey was thinkingThis book presents the history of the CIA during William Casey's tenure, from 1981 to 1987. Woodward focused the book primarily on William Casey himself. The book details not only the various operations that the CIA was involved in during the 1980s, but also Casey's motivations for his leadership decisions. The CIA operations described in the book include everything from the mundane details of placing bugs in the offices of foreign leaders to the Iran-Contra affair. Woodward gathered material ... Read More |
