Reviews

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

glass_carousel's review

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

d4nbuecher's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

Exhaustive in its scope, Talbot intriguingly builds out the immoral, pulpy reality behind CIA treachery, before, during and after the “known” tenure of Dulles. Some of the JFK assassination evidence does seem to branch off into fanaticism(the RFK detour feels especially undeveloped), but overall a very strong account of a uniquely American evil.

elinightingale's review

5.0

cia killed jfk

squidmud's review against another edition

need to come back to this 

nikomedes's review

challenging dark informative tense slow-paced

4.0

maxprovo's review

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.0

scgallagher's review against another edition

dark informative fast-paced

5.0

bowienerd_82's review against another edition

challenging dark informative slow-paced

2.75

crazylady_usmc's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

2.5

amandas_bookshelf's review

Library hold had to be returned and couldn't be renewed, I may or may not get back to this book again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Infidelity, Antisemitism, War, and Classism