The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945-2020

Synopsis

From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the seventy-five-year battle between the United States and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president. With vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Tim Weiner traces the roots of political warfare--the conflict America and Russia have waged with espionage, sabotage, diplomacy, and disinformation--from 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. Putin's Russia has revived Soviet-era intelligence operations, gaining ever more potent information from--and influence over--the American people and government. Yet the United States 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 twentieth-century CIA operations, the global political machinations of the Soviet KGB, the erosion of American political warfare after the cold war, and how twenty-first-century Russia has kept the cold war alive. He provides details of US duplicity with Russia which caused resentment and anger and US involvement in the murder of Congo's Patrice Lumumba and our wrongful support of Mobutu. The Folly and the Glory is an urgent call to our leaders and citizens to understand the nature of political warfare--and to change course before it's too late. TIM WEINER has 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 Glory is his sixth book.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

326 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781627790857

Publisher:

Henry Holt & Company

Date of Addition:

03/19/21

Copyrighted By:

Tim Weiner

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

Submitted By:

Terry Gorman

Proofread By:

Terry Gorman

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.