weiner tim lewis neil johnston (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1st. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 308 p. Fine in fine jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition [stated]. viii, 308, [4] pages. Note on sources. List of sources. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Signed on half-title by Davis Johnston and Neil Lewis. Tim Weiner (born June 20, 1956) is an American reporter and author. He is the author of four books and co-author of a fifth, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Weiner worked for the Times from 1993 to 2009 as a foreign correspondent in Mexico, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan and as a national security correspondent in Washington, DC. Weiner won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as an investigative reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer, for his articles on the black budget spending at the Pentagon and the CIA. David Johnston and Neil Lewis also were journalists working at The New York Times. Derived from a Kirkus review: An eye-widening look inside one of America's most notorious spy cases. Veteran New York Times reporters Weiner, Johnston, and Lewis portray the CIA as populated by mediocre career bureaucrats more concerned with self-preservation than with doing the organization's legally mandated job. It comes as no surprise that Aldrich Ames, a severely alcoholic, incompetent spook, should have risen to head the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division. Ames sold critical government secrets to the Soviet Union. He turned to a quick source of cash--the KGB--to fund his expensive tastes in clothing, housing, food, drink, and companions during his postings in places like Mexico City and Rome. The information he supplied the Soviets led directly to the destruction of a network of double agents. His treason earned Ames nearly $3 million before his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994. He was brazenly careless about his new wealth, but the CIA took years to wonder how Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe, questions that could have been answered ``by the kind of credit check millions of Americans undergo each year.''.

Zustand: fine, very good. First Edition. 308, note on sources, list of sources, index, slight wear to top and bottom DJ edges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. Eine packende Erzählung über Aldrich Ames, einen CIA-Agenten, der während des Kalten Krieges für Russland spionierte. Das Buch beleuchtet die Handlungen von Ames und deren verheerende Auswirkungen auf die nationale Sicherheit der USA. Zustand: Einband mit geringfügigen Gebrauchsspuren, insgesamt SEHR GUTER Zustand! Stichworte: Genres: Biography, True Crime, Espionage; Schlagworte: Aldrich Ames, CIA, Espionage, Cold War, Russian spies, Intelligence, Washington, Betrayal, American spy, National security. 308 Seiten Englisch 717g.

Zustand: Near fine. 1st UK. Paperback.

First edition of this remarkable biography of the last American spy of the Cold War. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by all three authors on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to American journalist William Safire. The recipient, William Safire was an important American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He joined Nixonâs campaign for the 1960 Presidential race, and supported him again in 1968. After Nixonâs 1968 victory, Safire served as a speechwriter for him and Spiro Agnew. He authored several political columns in addition to his weekly column âOn Languageâ in The New York Times Magazine from 1979 until the month of his death and authored two books on grammar and linguistics: The New Language of Politics (1968) and what Zimmer called Safireâs âmagnum opus,â Safireâs Political Dictionary. Safire later served as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1995 to 2004 and in 2006 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Andy Carpenter. With Safire's photocopies of letters sent by Aldrich Ames and a clipping of Ames' review of Safire's novel Sleeper Spy written by him as a prisoner in Allenwood, Pennsylvania. A nice association. "An eye-widening look inside of one of America's most notorious spy cases. Suspenseful. powerful" (Kirkus Reviews).