Author Timothy Weiner, "The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century"
The Bookshop welcomes Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning journalist Timothy Weiner to discuss his masterful history of the Central Intelligence Agency's past 25 years, which is a NY Times bestseller and New Yorker Best Book of 2025.
The recent history of the CIA is dramatic: After the 9/11 attacks, the agency mostly abandoned spycraft and instead devoted itself to secret prisons, brutal interrogations, and paramilitary anti-terrorism strikes. This shift allowed widespread security breaches, the deaths of foreign agents, and misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More recently, the CIA has been gutted by "the shattering of our nation's alliances" and the firing of career intelligence officers in favor of incompetent political minions. Weiner bases this gripping story on interviews with multiple former CIA directors, its top spymaster, and scores of station chiefs and undercover operations officers, few of whom had ever spoken to a journalist before.
Free and all are welcome. The author will read from and sign his book.
