Bomb power : the modern presidency and the national security state

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

Author/creator	Wills, Garry, 1934-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Description	278 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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.
Abstract	From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills comes this groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy, and why we have been in a state of war alert ever since.--Jacket.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index.
LCCN	2009030182
ISBN	9781594202407
ISBN	1594202400

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	UA23 .W4596 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold