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Title:
The emergency state : America's pursuit of absolute security at all costs
ISBN:
9781594203244
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
359 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Losing our way -- The godfather -- The framing of the permanent emergency state -- Runaway train -- Belated realism -- Tunnel vision -- Emergency repairs -- Damage control -- A different path -- The president we wanted -- Soft landing -- Bridge to nowhere -- Come the destroyer -- Hope abandoned -- Beyond the emergency state.
Summary:
Provides an analysis of the United States government's narrow-minded focus on security in the years since World War II and how it has become huge, unwieldy, and a detriment to democracy and the economy.
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