Reviews for Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence

The average rating for Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-28 00:00:00 Michael Smith Interesting but entirely forthright. A very few obvious discrepancies if one has been in the realm of intel especially in a war zone. Decent read with a few minor discrepancies.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-06-09 00:00:00 Michael Galliher 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.