{"product_id":"9780300208504","title":"The CIA and American Democracy","description":"This third edition of Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’s engrossing history of the Central Intelligence Agency includes a new prologue that discusses the history of the CIA since the end of the Cold War, focusing in particular on the intelligence dimensions of the terrorist attacks on 9\/11.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePraise for the earlier editions:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“I have read many books on the CIA, but none more searching and still dispassionate. Nor would I have believed that a book of such towering scholarship could still be so lucid and exciting to read.”—Daniel Schorr\u003cbr\u003e“This is one of the best short histories of the CIA in print, up-to-date and based on a wide range of sources.”—Walter Laqueur\u003cbr\u003e“Judicious and reasonable. . . . A sophisticated study that should challenge us to take a more serious view about how our democracy formulates its foreign policy.”—David P. Calleo, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA brief, yet subtle and penetrating, account of the Central Intelligence Agency.\"—Leonard Bushkoff, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Subtle and crisply written. . . . A book remarkable for its clarity and lack of bias.\"—William W. Powers, Jr., \u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune, Paris\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176396144880,"sku":"9780300208504","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300208504_p0.jpg?v=1769886969","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300208504","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}