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In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations-including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite-revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering. --Publishers Weekly New York Times editor Taubman exudes admiration for the contrarian thinking and enterprise that brought into being the U-2, the SR-71, and the Corona series of surveillance satellites. --Booklist During the early and most dangerous years of the cold war, a handful of Americans, led by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, revolutionized spying and warfare. In great secrecy and beyond the prying eyes of Congress and the press, they built exotic new machines that opened up the Soviet Union to surveillance and protected the United States from surprise nuclear attack. Secret Empire is the dramatic story of these men and their inventions, told in full for the first time.

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"""New York Times editor Taubman exudes admiration for the contrarian thinking and enterprise that brought into being the U-2, the SR-71, and the Corona series of surveillance satellites."" -- ""Booklist"" ""In this exciting, meticulously researched spy story, Taubman takes readers behind the closed doors of the Eisenhower administration to tell about the small group of Cold Warriors whose technological innovations--including the U2 spy plane and Corona, the country's first spy satellite--revolutionized espionage and intelligence gathering."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"""

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Philip Taubman, deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times, has written about national security and intelligence issues for more than 20 years. After joining The Times in 1979, he covered the Central Intelligence Agency and other spy organizations as a reporter in Washington during the Carter and Reagan administrations, winning two Polk Awards. As a correspondent and bureau chief for the newspaper in Moscow in the late 1980s, he chronicled the changes that unfolded in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. He returned to Washington in 1989, where as deputy Washington bureau chief he directed the bureau's coverage of the Persian Gulf war and America's changed place in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He served as deputy national editor of The Times from 1993-95. Since 1995, Taubman has coordinated the foreign policy commentary of The Times' editorial page and has written dozens of editorials about the CIA and intelligence issues. Earlier in his career, Taubman wrote about sports, education and business for Time magazine and Esquire. He graduated from Stanford University in 1971, where he majored in modern European history and was editor of the campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily. He served as a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees, 1978-82. Taubman is married to Felicity Barringer, who also works for The Times. They have two sons, Michael and Gregory. Michael Prichard has recorded more than 500 full-length audiobooks. He received an Audie Award for Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman and was named a Top Ten Golden Voice by SmartMoney magazine. He has also received several AudioFile Earphones Awards for works including At All Costs by Sam Moses and In Nixon's Web by L. Patrick Gray III. His has narrated works by Mark Twain, John Cheever, and John Updike, and read Fritjof Capra's book The Web of Life for Macmillan Audio. In addition to his audiobook work, Prichard is an actor on screen and stage, including as a member of Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company. He performed the role of Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451, a performance for which Bradbury dubbed him the finest Beatty in history. Prichard holds an M.F.A. in theater from the University of Southern California.

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