Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
2010
UA23 .W4596 2010 (Mapit)
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Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
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ISBN
9781594202407
1594202400
1594202400
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
UA23 .W4596 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
355/.033073
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of 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.
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.