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Total Defense : The New Deal and the Invention of National Security / Andrew Preston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Preston, Andrew (Producer), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--United States--History--20th century.
- National security.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Cold War.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- 2025.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- In the 1930s, amid rising fascism, FDR and the New Dealers invented the doctrine of national security, which obligated the state to guard against not just territorial invasion but also remote threats to the "American way of life." Total Defense explores how the new idea of national security transformed the United States and its place in the world.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Blessings of Free Security
- The Battle of Pleasant Valley
- Moral Insurance
- The Bridge in Chicago
- Why We Fight
- The American Way
- The Battle of Bedford Falls
- Epilogue: Security Nation.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30049-1
- 0-674-30048-3
- OCLC:
- 1518285624
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