"Even among the members of his powerful circle, the influential men who shaped the postwar globe and became the original 'best and brightest, ' John McCloy stood as a figure of towering achievement. As a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and pr…
"Even among the members of his powerful circle, the influential men who shaped the postwar globe and became the original 'best and brightest, ' John McCloy stood as a figure of towering achievement. As a Wall Street lawyer who earned the confidence of captains of industry and pr…
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Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
'The Good Spy' is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of Robert Ames, one of the most important spies in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West
Drawing on extensive interviews with Ames' widow and quotes from his private letters, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer presents a brilliant narrative of the making of America's most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East.
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history ' a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bo…