Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State Paperback - 2011
by Garry Wills
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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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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- Title Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
- Author Garry Wills
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-01-25
- ISBN 9780143118688 / 0143118684
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.62 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, United States - Military policy
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.033
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