RaveThe Wall Street Journal... prodigiously researched ... [Weiner] has written a powerful exposé of a secret arm of the American government without using anonymous sources, off-the-record interviews or blind quotes. Legacy of Ashes is the best book I\'ve yet read on the CIA\'s covert actions ... What distinguishes Legacy of Ashes from most other books about the CIA is that it places the agency\'s assassination attempts, coups d\'état and other covert actions within a real political context. By tracing the relations between successive presidents and the CIA, Mr. Weiner refutes the paranoid myth that the agency was an out-of-control, rogue entity or, as some claim, a kind of shadow government ... a fascinating and revealing history -- a jewel of a book, to borrow a term.
