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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Look Back in Terror: A Preface to the Second Edition | ||
| 1 | The American Spy Considered as a Confidence Man | 1 |
| 2 | The Washington Style | 11 |
| 3 | Allan Pinkerton's Legacy | 24 |
| 4 | Did Wilkie Crush the Montreal Spy Ring? | 44 |
| 5 | U-1: The Agency Nobody Knew | 60 |
| 6 | Burns, Hoover, and the Making of an FBI Tradition | 81 |
| 7 | H. O. Yardley: The Traitor as Hero | 99 |
| 8 | Pearl Harbor in Intelligence History | 115 |
| 9 | Hyping the Sideshow: Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS | 131 |
| 10 | Allen Dulles and the CIA | 154 |
| 11 | Cuba, Vietnam, and the Rhetorical Interlude | 179 |
| 12 | Did Senator Church Reform Intelligence? | 205 |
| 13 | The Casey-Reagan Era: From History to Victory | 232 |
| 14 | The Real American Century? | 255 |
| Abbreviations to Notes | 289 | |
| Notes | 291 | |
| Bibliography | 327 | |
| Index | 343 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Michael Galliher
reviewed Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence on June 09, 2015
Cloak and Dollar
If the last history I read (The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream) was written at the level of the USA Today, this book is written at the level of the Weekly World News. This book is a series of broad value assertions in the most purple of prose without attribution or logical argument, apparently under the impression that no argument is necessary if the assertion is bold or biased enough.
If this were a first term paper by a 10th grade high school student, the English teach would have wasted a red pen circling sentences and writing "Is this common knowledge? Needs to be foot noted."
But this not a first term paper by a 10th grade high school student, it is an "academic" history text published by Yale University Press.
I wonder if this is what passes for scholarship in the Ivy League these days.
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