{"product_id":"wedge-from-pearl-harbor-to-911-how-the-secret-war-between-the-fbi-and-cia-has-endangered-national-security-9780743245999","title":"Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9\/11: How the Secret War Between the FBI and CIA Has Endangered National Security","description":"\u003cb\u003eProphetic when first published and even more relevant now, \u003ci\u003eWedge\u003c\/i\u003e is the classic, definitive story of the secret war America has waged against itself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on scores of interviews with former spies and thousands of declassified documents, \u003ci\u003eWedge\u003c\/i\u003e reveals and recreates--battle by battle, bungle by bungle--the epic clash that has made America uniquely vulnerable to its enemies. For more than six decades, the opposed and overlapping missions of the FBI and CIA--and the rival personalities of cops and spies--have caused fistfights and turf tangles, breakdowns and cover-ups, public scandals and tragic deaths. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA grand panorama of dramatic episodes, peopled by picaresque secret agents from Ian Fleming to Oliver North, \u003ci\u003eWedge\u003c\/i\u003e is both a journey and a warning. From Pearl Harbor, McCarthyism, and the plots to kill Castro through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and Iran Contra down to the Aldrich Ames affair, Robert Hanssen's treachery, and the hunt for Al Qaeda--\u003ci\u003eW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eedge\u003c\/i\u003e shows the price America has paid for its failure to resolve the conflict between law enforcement and intelligence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGripping and authoritative--and updated with an important new epilogue, carrying the action through to September 11, 2001--\u003ci\u003eWedge\u003c\/i\u003e is the only book about the schism that has informed nearly every major blunder in American espionage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Riebling is editorial director at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has written on national-security issues for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNational Review.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Touchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845088350482,"sku":"9780743245999","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f063681-9a74-4b2a-b665-0c63e780eac0.jpg?v=1737341256","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wedge-from-pearl-harbor-to-911-how-the-secret-war-between-the-fbi-and-cia-has-endangered-national-security-9780743245999","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}