House of War
By:James Carroll
Published on 2007-06-04 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
From the National Book Award–winning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vast—often hidden—impact on America. This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. To argue his case, he marshals a trove of often chilling evidence. He recounts how |the Building| and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called |a disastrous rise of misplaced power|—from the unprecedented aerial bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the |shock and awe| of Iraq. He charts the colossal U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR, and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threats—and funding—evaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to an epidemic of genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war. Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and dozens of extensive interviews with Washington insiders. The result is a grand yet intimate work of history, unashamedly polemical and personal but unerringly factual. With a breadth and focus that no other book could muster, it explains what America has become over the past sixty years.
This Book was ranked at 21 by Google Books for keyword ill sleep when im dead the dirty life and times of warren zevon.
Book ID of House of War's Books is gdIN5ALnJgUC, Book which was written byJames Carrollhave ETAG "m0K0L3lb5HU"
Book which was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt since 2007-06-04 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780547526454 and ISBN 10 Code is 0547526458
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "672 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryHistory
This Book was rated by 1 Raters and have average rate at "5.0"
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is true
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar