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A monument to deceit : Sam Adams and the Vietnam Intelligence Wars / C. Michael Hiam ; foreword by Thomas Powers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hiam, C. Michael, author.
- Powers, Thomas, author of introduction, etc.
- Standardized Title:
- Who the hell are we fighting?
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Military intelligence--United States.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Adams, Sam, 1933-1988.
- Vietnam (Democratic Republic)--Armed Forces--Organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- First ForeEdge paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lebanon, New Hampshire : ForeEdge, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A timely story of whistleblowing in wartime
- Contents:
- A downwardly mobile WASP
- Crisis in the Congo
- Vietnam
- George Allen's war
- The crossover point
- Told to lie
- SNIE 14.3-67
- A lugubrious irony
- The Adams phenomenon
- A Thoreau type
- Investigations
- CBS reports
- Cravath
- The libel trial of the century
- The colonels' revolt
- Reckless disregard.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in 2006 in hardcover as Who the Hell Are We Fighting? by Steerforth Press"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of: Hiam, C. Michael 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2006 (326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.) Call number of original: DS559.8.M44H53 2006
- ISBN:
- 1-61168-600-8
- OCLC:
- 877907954
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