Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills
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TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press , 2010.Description: 278 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781594202407
- National Security -- -United States -- History -- 20th century
- National security -- -United States -- -History -- -21st century
- Atomic bomb -- -United States -- -History
- Presidents -- -United States -- -History -- -20th century
- Presidents -- -United States -- -History -- -21st century
- Executive Power -- -United States -- History
- Secrecy -- -Political aspects -- -United States -- -History
- United States -- -Military policy
- United States -- -Politics and government -- -1945-1989
- United States -- -Politics and government -- -1989-
- 355.033 WIL
- UA23 .W4596 2010
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| Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | 355.033 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 047881 |
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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.
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