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

Author: Wills, Garry, 1934-

Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.

ISBN: 9781594202407
1594202400

Description: p. cm.

Subject: 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.

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