{"id":135,"date":"2008-03-19T12:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/2008\/03\/19\/we-recommend-books-on-spooks-and-spies\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:18","slug":"we-recommend-books-on-spooks-and-spies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2008\/03\/19\/we-recommend-books-on-spooks-and-spies\/","title":{"rendered":"We Recommend \u2013 Books on Spooks and Spies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cudahy New Book Shelf is currently featuring fiction and non-fiction books about the CIA.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/legacy-ashes.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, <strong><em>Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA<\/em><\/strong> by Tim Weiner is an in-depth and comprehensive history of the CIA gleaned from interviews with former directors and servicemen as well as archival documents.  Weiner does more than just recount facts; he critically examines the role and tactics of the agency after the September 11th attacks.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fairgame.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Moving from this arching overview of the agency to a highly personal account, you&#8217;ll also find <strong><em>Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House<\/em><\/strong>, by Valerie Plame Wilson.  Plame Wilson, whose CIA cover was famously blown by the White House in 2003, tells her side of the <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cudsyslx.library.luc.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ordinaryspy.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>story previously commented on copiously by newspapermen and pundits.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA is also rich territory for fiction writers, and so alongside the factual accounts are placed a work of fiction &#8211; <strong><em>An Ordinary Spy<\/em><\/strong>, by Joseph Weisberg.  Weisberg, a former CIA officer himself, presents a fictional working portrait of the CIA and modern espionage set to the pace of a thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cudahy New Book Shelf is currently featuring fiction and non-fiction books about the CIA. Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner is an in-depth and comprehensive history of the CIA gleaned from interviews with former directors and servicemen as well as archival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}