Spies, conspiracies, who really shot JFK, was the cold war a must, what started the Vietnam war, is the CIA doing it’s job, and how can a democracy balance security and the need to run secret organizations? All of this and much more in “Legacy of Ashes” by Tim Weiner

 
 
 
 
 

 
HBS rating: Interesting, but not a must
who should read:

History lovers looking for another angle at what happened in the last 60 years
Those who can stand 400 pages or so of one man’s very opinionated opinion (he does claim it’s based on fact)
The complexity of keeping a democracy democratic

On a recent visit to San Francisco I [...]