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Bezig met laden... Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (2010)door Garry Wills
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"In the atomic era, the President as Commander in Chief has taken on a mystique that makes him a power apart," argues Mr. Wills. That new "power" has given the White House carte blanche to act with impunity in other areas as well. Historian Garry Wills won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America and now he's back with a new book about how the atomic bomb transformed our nation. Wills is most persuasive when he shows how the atomic age brought with it a culture of government secrecy that favored executive power, allowing presidents to conceal from the public and Congress actions taken in the name of national security. "Bomb Power" is an ambitious work, and while Wills is incapable of being anything but provocative and erudite, his book is thought-provoking but not entirely persuasive.
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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To be fair, "Bomb Power" isn't a work of investigative journalism. There are no new revelations here (at least not for those familiar with the various legacies of deceit that trail our federal government like slug slime). What Wills has done is to give a clear and unifying context within which to view old scandals and betrayals; i.e., as part of a pattern of erosion in which Congress's constitutional role is continually being subverted and diminished. ( )