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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
Author: George Crile
Binding: Hardcover
Published: April, 2003
ISBN: 0871138549
$17.68
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Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
by: George Crile
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Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.2 / 5.0 
Outstanding Book!: 
This book gives you the inside track of the United Staes role of the war in Afghanistan against the Russians.Charlie Wilson a
skirt chasing hard drinking Cngressman from Texas first learned of the plight of the Afghan warriors from a Houston socialite
JoAnne Herring.Wilson turned out to be the factor thar made the
difference in the war.He used his influence on the Appropriations
Committee to provide crucial financing fro the Afghan warriors.
He teamed up with CIA agent Gust Avrakotos to find... more info
hard to put down:
Crile nonjudgementally tells a spellbinder of a story about how the covert war in Afghanistan played out. This is an important addition to the public discourse, since so many people are willing to naively or manipulatively assign credit for the fall of the Soviets to Ronald Reagan alone, rather than to the liberal rogue from East Texas, Charlie Wilson.
It also gives valuable insights into the way the CIA and Federal Government work in practice, and how much can change can be effected by fascinating and... more info
utterly amazing:
If this were fiction I would have to give it three stars or less for being unbelievably over-the-top. Would you beleive that an alcoholic sex-maniac liberal Democrat Congressman illegaly ran the biggest covert program in the history of the USA without ANY kind of sanction from the Executive branch!?!
Depending on your point-of-view, Rep. Wilson's endless escapades that included drunk hit-and-run car crashes and wasting endless amounts of taxpayer money on flying his many girlfriends around the world will... more info
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