The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs
by Unger, David C
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good+/Very Good+, Not Price Clipped
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- 1594203245
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203244
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Synopsis
From the New York Times ’s veteran foreign policy editorialist, a lucid analysis of the harm caused by America’s increasingly misdirected national security state America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasingly complicated, ineffective, and outdated network of security services. Yet this pursuit has not only damaged our democratic institutions and undermined our economic strengths; it has fundamentally failed to make us safer. In The Emergency State , senior New York Times writer David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of America’s bipartisan obsession with achieving absolute national security and traces a series of missed opportunitiesfrom the end of World War II through the presidency of Barack Obamawhen we could have rethought our defense strategy but did not. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nonpartisan, this is the definitive untold story of how America became so vulnerableand how it can build real security again.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022655
- Title
- The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs
- Author
- Unger, David C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- American First
- ISBN 10
- 1594203245
- ISBN 13
- 9781594203244
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- National Security - United States
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