House of War
by James Carroll
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0618187804
- ISBN 13
- 9780618187805
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover first edition, published by Houghton Mifflin, 2006. The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. With its exhaustive research and extensive interviews with Washington insiders, Carroll brings us the history of the Pentagon, demonstrating the enormous influence it has on both the United States and the rest of the World. 656 pages with Index, Bibliography, extensive Notes and a section of photos. Slate gray cloth covered boards, with the author and title imprinted on the spine in silver. The jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Boards are flat and the corners are not bumped or creased, no edge wear. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Sewn binding is tight and square. Edges of the text block show just a couple dots of age tanning, very small dots, see the attached photos for more details on the condition. Not a library discard, not a remainder. Photos are of the copy we have in our inventory, not stock photos.
Synopsis
From the National Book Awardwinning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast often hidden impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. To argue his case, he marshals a trove of often chilling evidence. He recounts how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power" from the unprecedented aerial bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the "shock and awe" of Iraq. He charts the colossal U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR, and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threats and funding evaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to an epidemic of genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war. Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and dozens of extensive interviews with Washington insiders. The result is a grand yet intimate work of history, unashamedly polemical and personal but unerringly factual. With a breadth and focus that no other book could muster, it explains what America has become over the past sixty years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21-434
- Title
- House of War
- Author
- James Carroll
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618187804
- ISBN 13
- 9780618187805
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2006-05-04
- Keywords
- Pentagon, Defense Department, U.S. Military, Military Intelligence
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military;
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