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Bomb power: the modern presidency and the national security state

By Wills , Garry

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN
9781101486191, 1101486198
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
333 kB (340937 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Political science;POLITICAL SCIENCE--American Gove

Description

A groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy. In Bomb Power, bestselling author Garry Wills presents a blistering critique of excessive executive power and official secrecy, drawing a direct line from the Manhattan Project to the usurpations of George W. Bush. He reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots-by dramatically increasing the power of the modern presidency and redefining the government as a national security state-leaving us in a state of continuous war alert for nearly seven decades. Bold and incisive, Bomb Power casts the history of the postwar period in a new light and sounds an alarm about the continued threat to our Constitution.

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