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Drawing on extensive interviews with old spooks and the social friends and family of his subjects, The Very Best Men is a fascinating narrative that brings to life a crucial piece of American history.In The Wise Men (written with Walter Isaacson), Thomas brought to life a group of men who largely shaped the course of American foreign policy for the post-war era. Here, he does the same for the four men who ran covert operations for the CIA from World War II to Vietnam. They were known as the "e;clique"e; and they came from an elite class that believed it was their duty in life to run the world-it was the message they got at prep school and Yale, it was the lesson they learned from winning World War II, and it was their job in Washington. This was the high age of the CIA, when it was the president's personal action arm, overthrowing governments, bribing heads of state, and plotting assassinations in a global secret war against communism.
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