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Elections Corrupt practices United States Intelligence service Russia (Federation) History Intelligence service Soviet Union History Intelligence service United States History Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Presidents United States Biography Presidents United States Election 2016 Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich 1952- Trump, Donald 1946- United States Politics and government 1969-1974Harrison, Jim
Summary: In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Presents the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, detailing how the bureau has been used to conduct political warfare, and how it became the most powerful intelligence service in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.25 WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 WEIWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.127 WEIWeiner, Tim
Summary: "With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with thehelp of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 WEIWeiner, Tim.
Summary: Based largely on documents declassified only in the last few years, One Man Against the World paints a devastating portrait of a tortured yet brilliant man who led the country largely according to a deep-seated insecurity and distrust of not only his cabinet and congress, but the American population at large. In riveting, tick-tock prose, Weiner illuminates how the Vietnam War and the Watergate...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015