House of War The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

Name: House of War The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power
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ISBN: 9780618872015

ISBN-10: 0618872019

ISBN-13: 9780618872015

Edition: 2006

Authors: James Carroll

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In House of War, the best-selling author James Carroll has created a history of the Pentagon that is both epic and personal. Through Carroll we see how the Pentagon, since its founding, has operated beyond the control of any force in government or society, undermining the very national security it is sworn to protect.From its "birth" on September 11, 1941, through the nuclear buildup of the Cold War and the eventual "shock and awe" of Iraq, Carroll recounts how "the Building" and its officials have achieved what President Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power." This is not faded history. House of War offers a compelling account of the virtues and follies that led America…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.71" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

James Carroll is the author of nine novels & the memoir "An American Requiem," which won the National Book Award. His essays on culture & politics appear weekly in the "Boston Globe." He wrote "Constantine's Sword" while on fellowships at Harvard University. Before becoming a writer, Carroll was a Catholic priest. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.



Prologue


The Invisible Boy



One Week in 1943


Hell's Bottom


Unconditional Surrender


Operation Pointblank


Le May


The Whiz Kid


Leslie Groves Does It All


The Other September 11s



The Absolute Weapon


Truman's "Decision."


Stimson's Defense


Not Japan, but Moscow?


Atomic Forgetfulness


Groves's Toboggan


The Second Coming in Wrath


The Hamburg Threshold


After Dresden


The Babe Ruth of Bombers


Born in Original Sin



The Cold War Begins


Tendered a Commission


Stimson's September 11


Forrestal Agonistes


Kennan's Mistake


Foundational Paranoia


War Inside the Pentagon


Blockade and the Birth of the Air Force


The Russians Are Coming


Navy Versus Air Force


That Cop



Self-Fulfilling Paranoia


Stalin's Teeth


No to the Hydrogen Bomb


Nitze to the Rescue


Forrestal's Ghost: NSC-68


Korea Saved Us


Truman's Other Decision


The Test


Duck and Cover


Massive Retaliation


The Missed Opportunity


Defense Intellectuals


Operation Top Hat


The Gaither Report: Nitze Again



The Turning Point


Life of the Pentagon


A Lark in Berlin


There Will Be War


Head to Richmond


Let Both Sides


The Need for New Intelligence


McNamara and LeMay


All-Out Spasm Attack


The Kaysen Memos


Edge of the Abyss


At American University


Why We Love Him



The Exorcism


Present at the Destruction


LeMay to the Absurd


Errors of the Mind


Great White Whale


McNamaras Endgame


From Disarmament to Arms Control


The Berrigan Brothers


Enter the ABM, Reenter Nitze


Nixon and Laird


Knockout Blow


Bombing the Pentagon? Not with a Bang



Upstream


Nuclear Priesthood


The Madman Theory


The Schlesinger Doctrine


Enter Rumsfeld and Cheney


Jimmy Carter's Question


The Frozen Smile


The People Are Heard


Be Not Afraid


We Win, You Lose, Sign Here


The Freeze


The Abolitionist


Sanctuary


Enter Gorbachev


Answer to Forrestal



Unending War


Into Plowshares


Back to Stimson


Operation Just Cause


Fool's Game


New World Order


The Chinese Word


Goldwater-Nichols


The Immigrant's Son


Clinton's Honor


Gays in the Military


The Real Contrast with Truman


The Nuclear Posture Review


The Balkan Wars


Apostolic Succession


September 11, 2001


Epilogue: New World Order


National Memory


The Normalization of War


Instant Replay


National Security? Revenge


I Have a Dream


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index