Kyle Harrison
to-read
Charlie Wilson's War
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History
- Author
- George Crile
- Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 550
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: One Texas congressman on an appropriations subcommittee escalating the CIA’s Afghan programme from a few million dollars to the largest covert operation ever run — reported by a 60 Minutes producer who was there.
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- History · Power · Institutions — where this sits in the corpus.