Evan Thomas
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The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
Evan Thomas
Thomas has drawn on his original research in CIA archives and interviews with scores of old agency hands to evoke the urgency and uncertainty, as well as the giddiness, of the shadow wars of the 1950s and early 1960s when the country, with reason, felt itself in danger from Soviet-led Communist aggression. Frank Wisner, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and Desmond FitzGerald embodied the confidence, daring, and arrogance of the WASP elite that dominated the CIA at its founding.
Thomas brings these men to life as they move boldly, and a bit innocently, into the…
