Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state
Title:
Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state
Author:
Wills, Garry, 1934-
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Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
278 pages ; 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.--Jacket.
Language:
English
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 -- Presidential wars -- Korea -- Permanent emergency -- Information power -- Secrecy as embarrassment cover -- Secrecy as Congress deceiver -- Secrecy as policy distorter -- Secrecy as crime concealer -- Executive usurpations -- "War power" -- Challenging secrecy -- Unitary executive -- American monarch.
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ISBN:
9781594202407
Format :
Book
