PERSICO : Casey (fülszöveg)
No one man during Ronald Reagan's presidency provoked more suspicion, more notoriety, more controversy than William J. Casey, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1981 through his resignation, after a stroke, at the end of 1986. His death in 1987, at the height of the disclosures about Iran-contra, left many questions about his and the Reagan administration's involvement in the affair. Even Bob Woodward's famous deathbed interview, where Casey admitted involvement, did little to clarify responsibility or intent.
In Casey, Joseph E. Persico illuminates much of the mystery surrounding Casey's life and death. With complete access to Casey's private papers, Persico offers a remarkable portrait of a remarkable man. Casey's life was a quintessential American story of pluck and can-do. The son of Irish-Catholic immigrants, his father a small-time Democratic politician, Casey would leave these roots far behind. He would become a lawyer, an author, a venture capitalist (inventor of the tax shelter), director of secret intelligence in the OSS during the Second World War, a reform-minded chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Richard Nixon, and finally gain admission into the elite Republican establishment, a kingmaker behind the scenes.
Persico portrays a man at once complex and simple: a devout Catholic who was a hard nosed pragmatist; an ideological warrior always at the ready with a crowbar or a legal brief; a deeply intelligent, yet oddly naive American patriot.
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