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008			102307s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a2009030182
020			_a9781594202407
050	0	0	_aUA23 _b.W4596 2010
082	0	0	_a355.033 WIL
100	1		_aWills, Garry _d, 1934-
245	1	0	_aBomb power _b: the modern presidency and the national security state _c/ Garry Wills
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2010.
300			_a278 p. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aFrom 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.
650		4	_aNational Security _x-United States -- History -- 20th century
650		4	_aNational security _z-United States _x-History _y-21st century
650		4	_aAtomic bomb _z-United States _x-History
650		4	_aPresidents _z-United States _x-History _y-20th century
650		4	_aPresidents _z-United States _x-History _y-21st century
650		4	_aExecutive Power _x-United States -- History
650		4	_aSecrecy _x-Political aspects _z-United States _x-History
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Military policy
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1945-1989
651		4	_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1989-
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