| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Edward Lansdale's Cold War. By Jonathan Nashel. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. xiv, 278 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-452-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-464-2.)
This biography probes the personality, career, and cultural representation of the legendary Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operations specialist Col. Edward G. Lansdale. Preceded only by a mendacious and self-serving autobiography, as well as an adulatory authorized biography, Jonathan Nashel's work is the first meaningful book-length analysis of this critical figure in both the history and mythology of the Cold War.	1
Nashel makes an important contribution through his careful sifting of the history, legend, and symbolic representation of the notorious cia "spook." The book is well written, effectively organized, and accessible to scholars, students, and the public.	2
Drawing on documents, interviews, and secondary works, Nashel analyzes the history of Lansdale's cia operations, notably in the Philippines, Cuba, and Vietnam. Going beyond a workmanlike approach, however, Nashel offers a "cultural mythography, its main subject being American Cold War culture and the complex ways in which Lansdale both embodied and helped to shape it" (p. 11).	. . .

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