Tim Weiner Knihy

Tim Weiner je reportér listu New York Times. Má za sebou tři knihy a Pullitzerovu cenu za jednu z nich. Už v prvních dvou - Bianko šek (o černých fondech Pentagonu) a Zrada (o případu amerického špiona Aldricha Amese) - se pouštěl na velmi horkou půdu. V zatím poslední své knize, věnované dějinám CIA, vydané v r. 2007, v této tradici pokračuje. Psát dějiny jakékoli tajné služby je krajně nesnadné. Oficiálních údajů se zveřejňuje co možná nejméně, a to ještě co možná nic neříkajících, o to víc však je nepodložených dohadů, fám a různých "zaručených pravd". Historik je tedy odkázán kromě pramenů zejména na osobní svědectví zúčastněných. Autor této knihy sám uvádí, že byl nucen přečíst přes padesát tisíc dokumentů z archivů CIA, Bílého domu a ministerstva zahraničí, ale navíc musel získat přes dva tisíce vyjádření pracovníků tajné služby, vojáků a diplomatů. Šedesátiletou historii CIA od roku 1945 do roku 2007 autor rozčlenil do padesáti oddílů seskupených do šesti kapitol podle jednotlivých prezidentských období.

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth.

Here is the first history of President Richard Nixon covering all of his secret tapes and documents, many declassified in the past two years. Award-winning journalist Tim Weiner presents a devastating portrait of a tortured and tormented man, showing how, in Nixon's mind, the conflict in Vietnam and the crimes of Watergate were one war, fought on two fronts. He trusted no one--not his Cabinet, not his closest advisers, not the American people. Elected to unite a nation as discordant as it was at the close of the Civil War, Nixon disdained domestic policies and programs. He wanted above all to create what he called "a generation of peace"--By asking the world's leading Communist dictators to help him end the Vietnam War. He saw antiwar American citizens as opponents no less dangerous than the enemy in Vietnam. Gripped by rage and insomnia, he fought his foes without mercy. Abroad, his best weapons were B-52 bombers. At home, he used undercover agents, warrantless wiretaps, break-ins, and burglaries. Almost all his presidency is recorded on tape or preserved on paper, creating a remarkable record of the most intimate and damning conversations. Only recently, after forty years of struggle, has much of this jaw-dropping information been made public. Nixon saw himself not only as the leader of the free world but "the world leader"--yet he was addicted to the gutter politics that ruined him. His political suicide has no equal in American history.--Publisher information

"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 the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and around the world, and yet the US has not engaged its own political warfare methods in defense, even as our own justice department has concluded unequivocally that Russia influenced the 2016 election. To get to the heart of what's at stake and find potential solutions, Weiner examines long-running twentieth century CIA operations, political machinations by the Soviet KGB around the world, the erosion of American political warfare after the Cold War, and why twenty-first century Russia has returned to the practice while the US has not. Weiner takes us behind closed doors and into the deliberation rooms of past and present Russian and American intelligence operations that directly led to-and help illuminate-the current administration and the future of American democracy"--

"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 the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and around the world, and yet the US has not engaged its own political warfare methods in defense, even as our own justice department has concluded unequivocally that Russia influenced the 2016 election. To get to the heart of what's at stake and find potential solutions, Weiner examines long-running twentieth century CIA operations, political machinations by the Soviet KGB around the world, the erosion of American political warfare after the Cold War, and why twenty-first century Russia has returned to the practice while the US has not. Weiner takes us behind closed doors and into the deliberation rooms of past and present Russian and American intelligence operations that directly led to-and help illuminate-the current administration and the future of American democracy"-- Provided by publisher

With shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how these profound failures jeopardize our national security.

Tells the story of how the FBI is America's real secret service. It is the story of America's war against spies, subversives and saboteurs - and the self-inflicted wounds American democracy suffered in battle.

"Generous and entertaining." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and columnist comes a "fiercely funny, powerfully smart, and remarkably brave" (Cheryl Strayed) collection of heartwarming personal essays "as wonderful as her fiction" (Mindy Kaling) that "will enthusiastically reach out to readers and swiftly draw them close" (Publishers Weekly , starred review). Jennifer Weiner is many things: a bestselling author, a Twitter phenomenon, and an "unlikely feminist enforcer" (The New Yorker ). She's also a mom, a daughter, and a sister, a clumsy yogini, and a reality-TV devotee. In this "unflinching look at her own experiences" (Entertainment Weekly ), Jennifer fashions tales of modern-day womanhood as uproariously funny and moving as the best of Nora Ephron and Tina Fey. No subject is off-limits in these intimate and honest essays: sex, weight, envy, money, her mother's coming out of the closet, her estranged father's death. From lonely adolescence to hearing her six-year-old daughter say the F word-fat-for the first time, Jen dives into the heart of female experience, with the wit and candor that have endeared her to fans all over the world.

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Wieder liefert Tim Weiner, der Geheimdienstexperte und Pulitzer-Preisträger, eine packende und eindringliche Darstellung politischer Machtspiele. In »Macht und Wahn« beleuchtet er die bilaterale Beziehung zwischen den Großmächten Russland und USA. Gespickt mit Insiderberichten zeichnet Weiner fesselnd und anschaulich die Wurzeln dieses inzwischen über 75 Jahre andauernden Kampfes nach, den Amerika und Russland von 1945 bis 2020 mit Spionage, Diplomatie, Sabotage und Desinformation miteinander ausfechten. Weiner führt hinter verschlossene Türen und lässt die Protagonisten – Präsidenten, Politiker, Hintermänner – beider Seiten des Ost-West-Konflikts zu Wort kommen. Er beleuchtet die Machenschaften des KGB und der CIA und ihre Folgen für die Zeitgeschichte. Heute sehen die einst als Sieger aus dem Kalten Krieg hervorgegangenen USA ihre Demokratie in Gefahr. Denn Russland griff unter Wladimir Putin bereits zu einem Rückschlag an, der die USA gänzlich unvorbereitet traf: Mittels einer verdeckten Kampagne über Internet und Soziale Medien nahm die russische Regierung Einfluss auf die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2016 und stellte so sicher, dass ihr Wunschkandidat, Donald Trump, das Weiße Haus bezog. Auch das dagegen eingeleitete Amtsenthebungsverfahren richtete nichts aus. Erneut verhärten sich die Fronten, der Ausgang dieses realen Politthrillers jedoch bleibt ungewiss.