Word: distant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...
Turner's brusque and distant personality may be his biggest handicap outside the CIA. He does not get along well with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. He lacks the finesse to soothe CIA critics on Capitol Hill. He has even had his knuckles rapped by his boss. Last November, when Jimmy Carter wrote a memo to a few top advisers criticizing the low quality of their political reporting on Iran, it was interpreted as a scolding of Turner. Understandably, since he is the coordinator of all U.S. intelligence activity as well as head...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman •A Jew Today. Elie Wiesel • American Caesar. William Manchester •E.M. Forster: A Life. P.N. Furbank • In Search of History. Theodore H. White •The Annotated Shakespeare. A.L. Rowse •The Culture of Narcissism. Christopher Lasch
...Distant Mirror, Tuchman...