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Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state
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Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
ISBN
9781594202407
1594202400
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Physical Description
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 15, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: war in peace
The making of bomb power. Fatal miracle ; Atomic politics ; The care and keeping of the bomb
The national security state. Beginnings (1945-1946) ; Annus mirabilis (1947) ; Completing the apparatus (1948-1952)
Presidential wars. Korea ; Permanent emergency
Information power. Secrecy as embarrassment cover ; Secrecy as Congress deceiver ; Secrecy as policy disabler ; Secrecy as crime concealer
Executive usurpations. "War powers" ; Challenging secrecy ; The unitary executive ; American monarch.
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