Bomb power
Subtitle: [the modern presidency and the national security state]
By: Garry Wills
Contributors: Hoye, Stephen; Tantor Media
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Old Saybrook, Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: [sound recording] :
ISBN-13: 9781400145089; 9781400115082
Subjects: National security; History; Atomic bomb; Presidents; Executive power; Secrecy; Audiobooks; Military policy; Politics and government
Description: 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.
Notes: Subtitle from container.

Unabridged.

Compact discs.

Read by Stephen Hoye.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: war in peace; title: The making of bomb power. Fatal miracle ; Atomic politics ; The care and keeping of the bomb; title: The national security state. Beginnings (1945-1946) ; Annus mirabilis (1947) ; Completing the apparatus (1948-1952); title: Presidential wars. Korea ; Permanent emergency; title: Information power. Secrecy as embarrassment cover ; Secrecy as Congress deceiver ; Secrecy as policy disabler ; Secrecy as crime concealer; title: Executive usurpations. "War powers" ; Challenging secrecy ; The unitary executive ; American monarch.