Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state
Wills, Garry , 1934-
Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills - New York : Penguin Press , 2010. - 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
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.
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.
9781594202407
2009030182
National Security---United States -- History -- 20th century
National security---History---United States---21st century
Atomic bomb---History---United States
Presidents---History---United States---20th century
Presidents---History---United States---21st century
Executive Power---United States -- History
Secrecy---Political aspects---History---United States
United States---Military policy
United States---Politics and government---1945-1989
United States---Politics and government---1989-
UA23 / .W4596 2010
355.033 WIL
Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills - New York : Penguin Press , 2010. - 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
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.
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.
9781594202407
2009030182
National Security---United States -- History -- 20th century
National security---History---United States---21st century
Atomic bomb---History---United States
Presidents---History---United States---20th century
Presidents---History---United States---21st century
Executive Power---United States -- History
Secrecy---Political aspects---History---United States
United States---Military policy
United States---Politics and government---1945-1989
United States---Politics and government---1989-
UA23 / .W4596 2010
355.033 WIL
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