Wills, Garry,  1934- <br/><br/>
Bomb power :  the modern presidency and the national security state / 
Garry Wills. 
 - New York :  Penguin Press,  2010. 
 - 278 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-265) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594202407 9780143118688 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009030182 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National security--History--United States--20th century.<br/>National security--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Atomic bomb--Political aspects--History.--United States<br/>Presidents--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Presidents--History--United States--21st century.<br/>Executive power--History.--United States<br/>Secrecy--Political aspects--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Military policy.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1989-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>UA23  / .W4596 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>355/.033073