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Author:

Wills, Garry, 1934-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

278 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

National security--History--20th century.
National security--History--21st century.
Atomic bomb--History.--History.
Presidents--History--20th century.
Presidents--History--21st century.
Executive power--History.
Secrecy--History.--History.
United States--Military policy.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1594202400
9781594202407

OCLC:

(OCoLC)428731352

LCCN:

2009030182

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)

BGPE251 -- Perry Public Library (Perry)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)