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Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

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Title: Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
Author: Garry Wills
ISBN: 9780143118688
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine


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Publisher Description:
A groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy.

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.

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.