Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

6 Anmeldelser

3.8

Længde
25T 23M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Biografier

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the most powerful—and secretive—colossus in Washington, from the founder of Salon.com and author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers.

America’s greatest untold story: the United States’ rise to world dominance under the guile of Allen Welsh Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA. Drawing on revelatory new materials—including newly discovered U.S. government documents, U.S. and European intelligence sources, the personal correspondence and journals of Allen Dulles’s wife and mistress, and exclusive interviews with the children of prominent CIA officials—Talbot reveals the underside of one of America’s most powerful and influential figures.

Dulles’s decade as the director of the CIA—which he used to further his public and private agendas—were dark times in American politics. Calling himself “the secretary of state of unfriendly countries,” Dulles saw himself as above the elected law, manipulating and subverting American presidents in the pursuit of his personal interests and those of the wealthy elite he counted as his friends and clients—colluding with Nazi-controlled cartels, German war criminals, and Mafiosi in the process. Targeting foreign leaders for assassination and overthrowing nationalist governments not in line with his political aims, Dulles employed those same tactics to further his goals at home, Talbot charges, offering shocking new evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

An exposé of American power that is as disturbing as it is timely, The Devil’s Chessboard is a provocative and gripping story of the rise of the national security state—and the battle for America’s soul.

© 2015 Harper (Lydbog): 9780062420862

Release date

Lydbog: 13. oktober 2015

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government David Talbot
  2. The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World Douglas Valentine
  3. America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle between America and its Enemies George Friedman
  4. I Spy: My Life in MI5 Tom Marcus
  5. Permanent Record: A Memoir of a Reluctant Whistleblower Edward Snowden
  6. Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies Gordon Corera
  7. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service Michael Bar-Zohar
  8. The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization Peter Zeihan
  9. Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War's Most Audacious Espionage Operation Steve Vogel
  10. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
  11. In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies Howard Blum
  12. Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Remaking of the West Luke Harding
  13. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder Sean McFate
  14. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins
  15. The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America Jim Sciutto
  16. Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia Paul L. Williams
  17. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - A Tragedy in Three Acts Scott Anderson
  18. Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward
  19. The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers Richard Aldrich
  20. Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House Robert Dallek
  21. Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent Fred Burton
  22. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East Michael B. Oren
  23. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage Sherry Sontag
  24. Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World Peter Zeihan
  25. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
  26. Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East Fawaz A. Gerges
  27. Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant Cartha ”Deke” DeLoach
  28. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Christopher R. Browning
  29. The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War Mark Urban
  30. True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spy Kati Marton
  31. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari
  32. The Secret War With Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World's Most Dangerous Terrorist Power Ronen Bergman
  33. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Martin J. Sherwin
  34. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia Mark Galeotti
  35. Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty
  36. Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard
  37. Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency James Bamford
  38. To Catch a Spy: The Art of Counterintelligence James M. Olson
  39. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir John Bolton
  40. The Last Days of Stalin Joshua Rubenstein
  41. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson
  42. Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975 Max Hastings
  43. The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945 Max Hastings
  44. A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis