From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president
With vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the roots of political warfarethe conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy and disinformationfrom 1945 until 2020. America won the cold war, but Russia is winning today. Vladimir Putin helped to put his chosen candidate in the White House with a covert campaign that continues to this moment. Putins Russia has revived Soviet-era intelligence operations gaining ever more potent information fromand influence overthe American people and government. Yet the US has put little power into its defense. This has put American democracy in peril.
Weiner takes us behind closed doors, illuminating Russian and American intelligence operations and their consequences. To get to the heart of what is at stake and find potential solutions, he examines long-running 20th-century CIA operations, the global political machinations of the Soviet KGB, the erosion of American political warfare after the cold war, and how 21st-century Russia has kept the cold war alive.The Folly and the Gloryis an urgent call to our leaders and citizens to understand the nature of political warfareand to change course before its too late.
Tim Weinerhas won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his reporting and writing on national security and intelligence. He covered the CIA, the war in Afghanistan, and crises and conflicts in fourteen nations for
The New York Times. Weiner has taught history and writing at Princeton and Columbia.
The Folly and the Gloryis his sixth book.
AKirkus ReviewsBest Nonfiction Book of 2020
The Folly and the Gloryis a riveting spy thriller made all the more chilling l³'
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