Bibliograph

Bomb power, the modern presidency and the national security state, Garry Wills

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Bomb power, the modern presidency and the national security state, Garry Wills

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bomb power

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

428731352

Responsibility statement

Garry Wills

Sub title

the modern presidency and the national security state

Table Of Contents

Introduction: War in peace -- A. The making of bomb power -- Fatal miracle -- Atomic politics -- The care and keeping of the bomb -- B. The national security state -- Beginnings (1945-1946) -- Annus mirabilis (1947) -- Completing the apparatus (1948-1952) -- C. Presidential wars -- Korea -- Permanent emergency -- D. Information power -- Secrecy as embarrassment cover -- Secrecy as Congress deceiver -- Secrecy as policy disabler -- Secrecy as crime concealer -- E. Executive usurpations -- "War powers" -- Challenging secrecy -- Unitary executive -- American monarch

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