Legacy of ashes : (Record no. 22485)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 22485
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20220701011011.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 180514s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780307389008 (pbk.)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency BD-DhIUB
Transcribing agency BD-DhIUB
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 327.1273009
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Weiner, Tim.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Legacy of ashes :
Remainder of title the history of the CIA /
Statement of responsibility, etc Tim Weiner ; [with a new afterword].
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Anchor Books ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Anchor Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 812 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-778) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note "In the beginning, we knew nothing" : the CIA under Truman, 1945-1953 -- "A strange kind of genius" : the CIA under Eisenhower, 1953 to 1961 -- Lost causes : the CIA under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961 to 1968 -- "Get rid of the clowns" : the CIA under Nixon and Ford, 1968 to 1977 -- Victory without joy : the CIA under Carter, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush, 1977 to 1993 -- The reckoning : the CIA under Clinton and George W. Bush, 1993 to 2007.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Intelligence must be global and totalitarian -- The logic of force -- Fight fire with fire -- The most secret thing -- A rich blind man -- They were suicide missions -- A vast field of illusion -- We have no plan -- CIA's greatest single triumph -- Bomb repeat bomb -- And then we'll have a storm -- We ran it in a different way -- Wishful blindness -- Ham-handed operations of all kinds -- A very strange war -- He was lying down and he was lying up -- Nobody knew what to do -- We had also fooled ourselves -- We'd be delighted to trade those missiles -- Hey, boss, we did a good job, didn't we? -- I thought it was a conspiracy -- An ominous drift -- More courage than wisdom -- The beginning of a long slide downwards -- We knew then that we could not win the war -- A political H-bomb -- Track down the foreign communists -- What the hell do those clowns do out there in Langley? -- USG wants a military solution -- We are going to catch a lot of hell -- To change the concept of a secret service -- A classic fascist ideal -- The CIA would be destroyed -- Saigon signing off -- Ineffective and scared -- He sought to overthrow their system -- We were just plain asleep -- A free-lance buccaneer -- In a dangerous way -- He was running a great risk -- A con man's con man -- To think the unthinkable -- What are we going to do when the wall comes down? -- We had no facts -- Why in the world didn't we know? -- We're in trouble -- The threat could not be more real -- The dark side -- A grave mistake -- The burial ceremony.
610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Central Intelligence Agency
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Intelligence service
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name United States
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1945-
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Copy number Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) IMT Shelves (Level 4) 14/05/2018   327.1273009 W4235l 2007 021780 14/05/2018 01 14/05/2018 Books