The Very Best Men - by Evan Thomas (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of "The Man to See" and the coauthor of "The Wise Men" comes the story of the CIA's early days--before it became The Company. Thomas' tale is told through the careers of four men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>The Very Best Men</i> is the story of the CIA's early days as told through the careers of four glamorous, daring, and idealistic men who ran covert operations for the government from the end of World War II to Vietnam. Evan Thomas re-creates the personal dramas and sometimes tragic lives of Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald, who risked everything to contain the Soviet threat.</b> <p/>Within the inner circles of Washington, they were regarded as the best and the brightest. They planned and acted to keep the country out of war--by stealth and "political action" and to do by cunning and sleight of hand what great armies could not, must not be allowed to do. In the end, they were too idealistic and too honorable, and were unsuited for the dark, duplicitous life of spying. Their hubris and naïveté led them astray, producing both sensational coups and spectacular blunders like the Bay of Pigs and the failed assassination attempts on foreign leaders in the early 1960s. Thomas draws on the CIA's own secret histories, to which he has had exclusive access, as well as extensive interviews, to bring to life a crucial piece of American history.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A brisk, readable, lively account of fifteen turbulent years of history . . . Informed, anecdotal, full of colorful details. -- <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>A jewel of a book. -- <i>The Washington Post</i><br><br>A thoughtful, provocative, and absorbing book, as scrupulously fair as it is responsible, bringing new details and shedding new light on forgotten events and personalities of years past. -- <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>An elegantly crafted group biography of four CIA officers during its glory days, from 1947 to its decline after the mid-1960s. -- <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Evan Thomas<b> </b>is the author of numerous books, including <i>The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the C.I.A.</i>; <i>Robert Kennedy: His Life; The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst and the Rush to Empire, 1989</i>; <i>Sea of Thunder: The Last Great Naval Command, 1941-1945</i>; and <i>John Paul Jones. </i>
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