ISBN10: 0618872019, ISBN13: 9780618872015, [publisher: Harper Paperbacks] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'A masterful achievement.[Carroll's] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.' --Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States'One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll's House of War.' --Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald ReaganFrom 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, ...
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