Davis was once described as L.A.’s “dark prophet” for his bleak view of ... legislation to promote the practice. In his 2021 book, The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What ...
It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.