Bomb Power : The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

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ISBN: 9781594202407 | 1594202400
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/21/2010

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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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Introduction: War in Peace	p. 1
The Making Of Bomb Power
Fatal Miracle	p. 7
Atomic Politics	p. 24
The Care and Keeping of the Bomb	p. 41
The National Security State
Beginnings (1945-1946)	p. 57
Annus Mirabilis (1947)	p. 70
Completing the Apparatus (1948-1952)	p. 86
Presidential Wars
Korea	p. 105
Permanent Emergency	p. 120
Information Power
Secrecy as Embarrassment Cover	p. 137
Secrecy as Congress Deceiver	p. 148
Secrecy as Policy Disabler	p. 161
Secrecy as Crime Concealer	p. 175
Executive Usurpations
"War Powers"	p. 187
Challenging Secrecy	p. 197
The Unitary Executive	p. 209
American Monarch	p. 222
Afterword	p. 237
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 267
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