{"product_id":"the-foundation-of-the-cia-richard-e-schroeder-9780826221377","title":"The Foundation of the CIA: Harry Truman, the Missouri Gang, and the Origins of the Cold War","description":"This highly accessible book provides new material and a fresh perspective on American National Intelligence practice, focusing on the first fifty years of the twentieth century, when the United States took on the responsibilities of a global superpower during the first years of the Cold War. Late to the art of intelligence, the United States during World War II created a new model of combining intelligence collection and analytic functions into a single organization--the OSS. At the end of the war, President Harry Truman and a small group of advisors developed a new, centralized agency directly subordinate to and responsible to the President, despite entrenched institutional resistance. Instrumental to the creation of the CIA was a group known colloquially as the \"Missouri Gang,\" which included not only President Truman but equally determined fellow Missourians Clark Clifford, Sidney Souers, and Roscoe Hillenkoetter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard E. Schroeder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826221378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826221377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Missouri Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018","brand":"Richard E. Schroeder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065205043455,"sku":"9780826221377","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d60a01ae-2630-4ca7-b489-66bf6b19c414.jpg?v=1768673670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-foundation-of-the-cia-richard-e-schroeder-9780826221377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}