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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Penguin USA
Publication date
August 27, 2013
Pages
359
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780143122975
ISBN-10
0143122975
Dimensions
1 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight
0.65 lbs.
Original list price
$17.00
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the New York Timesâs veteran foreign policy editorialist, a lucid analysis of the harm caused by Americaâs increasingly misdirected national security state
America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasingly complicated, ineffective, and outdated network of security services. Yet this pursuit has not
only damaged our democratic institutions and undermined our economic strengths; it has fundamentally failed to make us safer.
In The Emergency State, senior New York Times writer David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of Americaâs bipartisan obsession with achieving absolute national security and traces a series of missed opportunitiesâfrom the end of World War II through the presidency of Barack Obamaâwhen we could have rethought our defense strategy but did not. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nonpartisan, this is the definitive untold story of how America became so vulnerableâand how it can build real security again.
America is trapped in a state of war that has consumed our national life since before Pearl Harbor. Over seven decades and several bloody wars, Democratic and Republican politicians alike have assembled an increasingly complicated, ineffective, and outdated network of security services. Yet this pursuit has not
only damaged our democratic institutions and undermined our economic strengths; it has fundamentally failed to make us safer.
In The Emergency State, senior New York Times writer David C. Unger reveals the hidden costs of Americaâs bipartisan obsession with achieving absolute national security and traces a series of missed opportunitiesâfrom the end of World War II through the presidency of Barack Obamaâwhen we could have rethought our defense strategy but did not. Provocative, insightful, and refreshingly nonpartisan, this is the definitive untold story of how America became so vulnerableâand how it can build real security again.
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