Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state / Garry Wills.

Author/creator Wills, Garry, 1934-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Description278 pages ; 24 cm
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-.

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 -- 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.
Abstract 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.--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
LCCN 2009030182
ISBN9781594202407
ISBN1594202400

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Joyner General Stacks UA23 .W4596 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold