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- Release Year
- 2025
- ISBN
- 9780593184424
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0593184424
ISBN-13
9780593184424
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15068559546
Product Key Features
Book Title
Determined Spy : the Turbulent Life and Times of Cia Pioneer Frank Wisner
Number of Pages
656 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Intelligence & Espionage, Modern / 20th Century, Military / General, Military
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
32 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-018096
Reviews
"In The Determined Spy , Douglas Waller does an admirable job of piecing together long hidden and very forbidden secrets, among them development of the notorious MKUltra mind-bending drugs intended to create human robots. For more than a decade, during the coldest days of the spy war with Moscow, Frank Wisner ran the CIA's most secret department as deputy director of plans. For spy-readers, Waller's new book is a wonderful follow-on to his earlier book on the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan ." --James Bamford, national bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace , Body of Secrets, and SpyFail "Secret agents, soaring ideals, coup plots and intelligence disasters -- all of it runs through Douglas Waller's remarkable biography of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner. This is a tale of a shadow warrior at the dawn of the Cold War who fervently fought for freedom then tragically succumbed to personal demons." --David E. Hoffman, national bestselling author of The Billion Dollar Spy "Unknown to the public, Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in the world during the early days of the Cold War. He ran covert actions for the CIA when the spy agency was at the peak of its ambition. That Wisner ended up in a mental hospital and later killed himself was a fascinating and profound tragedy. A thorough and fair-minded historian, Doug Waller reveals the whole story, in gripping detail, and he tells it brilliantly." --Evan Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Very Best Men and The Road to Surrender "Thanks to an illustrious career of tracking the intelligence world, there are few who write about the CIA with as much authority as Douglas Waller and as much understanding of the human beings involved. In The Determined Spy , he deftly lays out the challenges, the compromises and the controversies of the CIA, but also the heavy personal cost to one of its early and most powerful leaders, Frank Wisner. With sensitivity but also admirable rigor, Waller reveals the story of a flawed man who fought the Cold War in the shadows with everything he had but was consumed by his own demons. A must for students of spying." --Sonia Purnell, author of Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue, "In this sweeping, immersive, and full-bodied study, journalist Waller, who authored a 2011, biography of OSS founder Wild Bill Donovan, turns to another central figure in American spycraft, Frank Wisner." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "A revealing look at the early history of a spy agency with a decidedly checkered past." -- Kirkus "In The Determined Spy , Douglas Waller does an admirable job of piecing together long hidden and very forbidden secrets, among them development of the notorious MKUltra mind-bending drugs intended to create human robots. For more than a decade, during the coldest days of the spy war with Moscow, Frank Wisner ran the CIA's most secret department as deputy director of plans. For spy-readers, Waller's new book is a wonderful follow-on to his earlier book on the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan ." --James Bamford, national bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace , Body of Secrets, and SpyFail "Secret agents, soaring ideals, coup plots and intelligence disasters -- all of it runs through Douglas Waller's remarkable biography of CIA pioneer Frank Wisner. This is a tale of a shadow warrior at the dawn of the Cold War who fervently fought for freedom then tragically succumbed to personal demons." --David E. Hoffman, national bestselling author of The Billion Dollar Spy "Unknown to the public, Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in the world during the early days of the Cold War. He ran covert actions for the CIA when the spy agency was at the peak of its ambition. That Wisner ended up in a mental hospital and later died by suicide was a fascinating and profound tragedy. A thorough and fair-minded historian, Doug Waller reveals the whole story, in gripping detail, and he tells it brilliantly." --Evan Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Very Best Men and The Road to Surrender "Thanks to an illustrious career of tracking the intelligence world, there are few who write about the CIA with as much authority as Douglas Waller and as much understanding of the human beings involved. In The Determined Spy , he deftly lays out the challenges, the compromises and the controversies of the CIA, but also the heavy personal cost to one of its early and most powerful leaders, Frank Wisner. With sensitivity but also admirable rigor, Waller reveals the story of a flawed man who fought the Cold War in the shadows with everything he had but was consumed by his own demons. A must for students of spying." --Sonia Purnell, author of Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue, "In The Determined Spy , Douglas Waller does an admirable job of piecing together long hidden and very forbidden secrets, among them development of the notorious MKUltra mind-bending drugs intended to create human robots. For more than a decade, during the coldest days of the spy war with Moscow, Frank Wisner ran the CIA's most secret department as deputy director of plans. For spy-readers, Waller's new book is a wonderful follow-on to his earlier book on the founder of the OSS, Wild Bill Donovan ." --James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace , Body of Secrets, and SpyFail .
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Dewey Edition
23/eng/20240529
Dewey Decimal
327.12730498092 B
Synopsis
Frank Wisner was one of the most powerful men in 1950s Washington, though few knew it. Reporting directly to senior U.S. officials - his work largely hidden from Congress and the public - Wisner masterminded some of the CIA's most daring and controversial operations in the early years of the Cold War, commanding thousands of clandestine agents around the world. Following an early career marked by exciting escapades as a key World War II spy under General William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, Wisner quickly rose through the postwar intelligence ranks to lead a newly created top secret unit tasked - under little oversight - with overseeing massive propaganda, economic warfare, sabotage, subversion, and guerrilla operations all over the world, including such daring initiatives as the CIA-backed coups in Iran and Guatemala. But simultaneously, Wisner faced a demon few at the time understood: bipolar disorder. When this debilitating disease resulted in his breakdown and transfer to a mental hospital, the repercussions were felt throughout Washington's highest levels of power. Waller's sensitive and exhaustively researched biography is the riveting story of both Frank Wisner as a national figure who inspired a cadre of future CIA secret warriors, and also an intimate and empathetic portrait of a man whose harrowing struggle with bipolar disorder makes his impressive accomplishments on the world stage even more remarkable.
LC Classification Number
UB271.U52W578 2025
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