C-SPAN Booknotes+ with Brian Lamb McNamara at War is “a portrait of a man at war with himself,” say the authors. “It’s riven with melancholy, guilt, zealous loyalty, and profound inability to admit his flawed thinking about Vietnam before it was too late.” Echoes of the Vietnam War Podcast The Taubmans …
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“The War Hawk Who Wasn’t,” an excerpt in The Atlantic that shares Philip Taubman and William Taubman’s writing on the newly discovered documents that reveal Robert McNamara’s private doubts about Vietnam. Air Mail’s “Passion on the Potomac” excerpts the book’s various hints at an affair between Jackie Kennedy and Robert …
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and intelligence expert Tim Weiner joins Chuck Todd for a devastating assessment of how Trump’s appointment of “crackpots” to lead America’s national security apparatus threatens catastrophic intelligence failures and the potential collapse of democratic institutions.
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Tim Weiner’s new book The Mission considers how the CIA is reimagining the art of espionage in the modern era. In today’s episode, he talks with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly about what he calls an “ideological purge” at the CIA under President Trump and how technology can make spying more …
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Tim Weiner, author of The Mission, talks to Christiane Amanpour about his investigation into the missteps at the CIA.
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