How long does it take to read Legacy of Ashes?
Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner takes about 13 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 710 pages, about 195,250 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized United States national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world - when it did not succeed, it set out to change the world instead. The author offers the first definitive history of the CIA, based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans, including ten Directors of Central Intelligence.
Subjects: United States, CIA, Histoire, National Book Award Winner, États-Unis, Intelligence service
