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The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. The attack was a geopolitical turning point. It marked the beginning of Hezbollah as a political force, but even more important, it eliminated America’s most influential and effective intelligence officer in the Middle East – CIA operative Robert Ames. What set Ames apart from his peers was his extraordinary ability to form deep, meaningful connections with key Arab intelligence figures. Some operatives relied on threats and subterfuge, but Ames worked by building friendships and emphasizing shared values – never more notably than with Yasir Arafat’s charismatic intelligence chief and heir apparent Ali Hassan Salameh (aka “The Red Prince”). Ames’ deepening relationship with Salameh held the potential for a lasting peace. Within a few years, though, both men were killed by assassins, and America’s relations with the Arab world began heading down a path that culminated in 9/11, the War on Terror, and the current fog of mistrust. Bird, who as a child lived in the Beirut Embassy and knew Ames as a neighbor when he was twelve years old, spent years researching The Good Spy. Not only does the book draw on hours of interviews with Ames’ widow, and quotes from hundreds of Ames’ private letters, it’s woven from interviews with scores of current and former American, Israeli, and Palestinian intelligence officers as well as other players in the Middle East “Great Game.” What emerges is a masterpiece-level narrative of the making of a CIA officer, a uniquely insightful history of twentieth-century conflict in the Middle East, and an absorbing hour-by-hour account of the Beirut Embassy bombing. Even more impressive, Bird draws on his reporter’s skills to deliver a full dossier on the bombers and expose the shocking truth of where the attack’s mastermind resides today.
Hardcover:
9781410469182 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 21, 2014), cover price $31.99
9780307889751 | Crown Pub, May 20, 2014, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9780307889768 | Broadway Books, May 26, 2015, cover price $16.00
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9780804166478 | Unabridged edition (Random House, May 20, 2014), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
Product Description: DIVIDED CITY is a vivid memoir of an American boy growing up in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict, three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East. Set in Jerusalem (1956-1958), Beirut (1970), Saudi Arabia (1962-1965), Amman and Cairo (1965-1967), Bird's book explains through a blend of memoir and history why the Western experience in the Middle East has been so turbulent...read more
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9781849831048 | Gardners Books, March 31, 2011, cover price $15.05 | About this edition: DIVIDED CITY is a vivid memoir of an American boy growing up in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict, three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East.
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9781416544401 | Scribner, April 20, 2010, cover price $30.00
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9780375412028 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 5, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A portrait of scientist J.
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9780375726262 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 11, 2006), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A portrait of scientist J.
Miscellaneous:
9780307424730 | Vintage Books, December 18, 2007, cover price $18.95
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9781470824419 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, July 1, 2012), cover price $44.95
Product Description: J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress...read more
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9781433200113 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $140.00 | About this edition: J.
9781433200120 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $44.95
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9781433200106 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: J.
9781433200137 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2007), cover price $72.95 | About this edition: J.
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9780684856445 | Simon & Schuster, June 21, 2000, cover price $31.95
This dual biography of two brothers whose legal and political careers spanned World War II, the Cold War, and Vietnam is based on scores of interviews with the subjects, their families, and their colleagues, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the making American foreign policy. 50,000 first printing.
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9780684809700 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1998, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: This dual biography of two brothers whose legal and political careers spanned World War II, the Cold War, and Vietnam is based on scores of interviews with the subjects, their families, and their colleagues, and offers a fascinating glimpse into the making American foreign policy.
Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945
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9780963058737 | Pamphleteers Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945
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9780963058744 | Monthly Review Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945
Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945
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9780963058768 | Pamphleteers Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays and memoirs discuss the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945
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9780671454159 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The biography of the ultimate self-made aristocrat tells how a poor kid from Philadelphia climbed to the highest rungs of the world's legal, corporate, diplomatic, and political ladders
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