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.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2020 The Folly and
the Glory is a riveting spy thriller made all the more chilling
because thanks to Tim Weiner's meticulous reporting, it is all
true. Anyone trying to understand the current tensions between the
U.S. and Russia over election interference and much else needs to
read this fascinating history. --Jane Mayer, author of
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the
Rise of the Radical Right "A well-written and provocative journey
to this era's perilous fight...And Weiner is especially adept at
unearthing and explaining the covert side of it all....as a
summation, The Folly and the Glory is brilliant." --The Washington
Post Fascinating, disturbing, important. --Francine Prose "A
sweeping, lively survey of the worldwide competition between the
Soviet Union (and later, Russia) and the United States since the
end of World War II. Weiner has, in abundance, the knowledge and
experience required to write such a book... [he] skillfully shows
that subversion, the dissemination of disinformation and military
interventions were standard fare in the competition between Moscow
and Washington, and he enlivens his story with vivid portraits of
the main characters...informative and entertaining." --The New York
Times Book Review "[A] colorful and richly detailed
account...Weiner briskly relates a treasure trove of declassified
material from the Cold War and draws on insider accounts to present
a plausible portrait of the current state of affairs. Newshounds
and espionage fans will be enthralled." --Publishers Weekly "In
this fraught, globally consequential 2020 campaign season, one
could hardly ask for a better explanation of how we landed here."
--Booklist, *starred review* "The Folly and the
Glory is a wake-up call to the nation about the threat from
Russia. This book details the seventy-five-year battle between the
United States and Russia--the success and the failures. As a former
Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense, I can attest to the
reality of the political warfare. The most sobering conclusion is
that we may be in danger of losing that war." --Leon E. Panetta,
chairman of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy and former
Secretary of Defense Gripping...unnervingly insightful.
--Kirkus Reviews, *starred review* "How has Russia gained the upper
hand in the decades-long political warfare between our two
countries? The Folly and the Glory deals with that
terrifying question, perhaps the most important national security
issue facing the United States. Tim Weiner has unique insights
about this struggle, achieved through thirty-five years of
reporting and writing." --the Honorable William Perry, former
Secretary of Defense
Weiner makes a riveting if bleak argument that the United States
mishandled the collapse of Soviet-style communism, and now we're
reaping the consequences. --HistoryNet
In its shadowy, often shocking, political warfare against the
Soviet Union, America was often one step behind. Now it is losing
ground to Russia. American democracy is teetering on the precipice
-- and The Folly and the Glory is critical to understanding
how Putin and his political warriors have brought us to the brink.
--Asha Rangappa, Yale University's Jackson Institute for Public
Affairs and former FBI special agent With wit, wisdom, and passion,
Tim Weiner, a brilliant investigative historian, chronicles the
wild and unsettling tale of the covert political warfare that has
transpired between the United States and Russia during and after
the Cold War--a clandestine clash that Moscow ultimately won with
its successful attack on the 2016 election. The Folly and the
Glory is a gripping and alarming page-turner revealing
harrowing stories of skulduggery, subterfuge, and malice--and a
clear and compelling warning that American democracy is threatened
by enemies abroad and their witting and unwitting allies at
home.
--David Corn, co-author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of
Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump "Tim
Weiner, our most intrepid historian of national security's dark
secrets, pulls off another triumph with The Folly and the Glory, a
fast-paced and revelatory chronicle showing that the Kremlin's
campaign to subvert American democracy is but the latest chapter in
a struggle that began with the Cold War--and the blowback to the
type of 'political warfare' that the U.S. invented." --Fred
Kaplan, author of The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret
History of Nuclear War and Dark Territory: The Secret
History of Cyber War "There is no bigger or more consequential
modern history than this. Writing with his inimitable fierce,
forceful urgency, Tim Weiner traces the eye-opening and astounding
story of 75 years of shadow conflict between the US and Russia,
from murder plots in the jungles of Congo to jazz in Poland to the
Democratic Party's servers in 2016. This book will stand alongside
works like Evan Thomas and Walter Issacson's The Wise Men and
Robert Gates' From The Shadows as the essential histories of the
Cold War, a war that as Weiner outlines, never really ended in
Russia's eyes. --Garrett M. Graff, author of the New York
Times bestseller The Only Plane in the
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