Charlie English begins "The CIA Book Club" by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

On Sunday, July 13, there appeared in the “New York Times Book Review” a quick look at Charlie English’s new non-fiction book entitled “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with ...

In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a truck that had "arrived on an overnight ferry from Copenhagen", said Luke ...

Just how important is literature? Vital enough to topple an authoritarian regime and bring about a new world order, according to Charlie English in “The CIA Book Club,” his meticulously researched ...

Author Charlie English joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature'. People Born Before 1990 Are Sharing The Super ...

Getting To Know The President is written by an ex-CIA officer, published by the spy agency's research wing and freely available on the CIA's website. It's no secret: A CIA book looks at fraught ...

When I was in college at Catholic University in the 1980s, you’d have to get on the metro and make a pilgrimage to an independent bookstore to read the stuff that was not on the official reading list ...

Though Neutering The CIA isn’t a book about Donald Trump, it is an exposé on exactly how and why the IC turned on him like a rabid dog — which now lies dormant, ready for activation against anyone not ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA officials had rave reviews for Boris Pasternak's classic Russian novel "Doctor Zhivago" - not for its literary merit but as a propaganda weapon in the Cold War, the ...

Author Charlie English joins Morning Joe to discuss the new book 'The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature'.July 1, 2025 ...

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