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Wills, Garry, 1934-
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National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National security -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Atomic bomb -- Political aspects -- 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-
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Bomb power : the mod...
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Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.
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Wills, Garry, 1934-
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Subjects
National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National security -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Atomic bomb -- Political aspects -- 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-
ISBN:
9781594202407
1594202400
Description:
278 p. ; 24 cm.
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 (1948-1952) -- Presidential wars. Korea ; Permanent emergency -- Information power. Secrecy as embarrassment cover ; Secrecy as Congress deceiver ; Secrecy as policy disabler ; Secrecy as crime concealer -- Executive usurpations. "War powers" ; Challenging secrecy ; The unitary executive ; American monarch.
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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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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
355.03307 Wi
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