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Commander in chief : how Truman, Johnson, and Bush turned a presidential power into a threat to America's future

Geoffrey Perret. -- Farrar, 2007. <BB00811221>
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title and statement of responsibility area Commander in chief : how Truman, Johnson, and Bush turned a presidential power into a threat to America's future / Geoffrey Perret
publication,distribution,etc.,area New York : Farrar , Straus and Giroux , c2007
physical description area x, 436 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
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ISBN 9780374102173
note Summary: This is a story of ever-expanding presidential powers in an age of unwinnable wars. Harry Truman and Korea, Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam, George W. Bush and Iraq: three presidents, three ever broader interpretations of the commander-in-chief clause of the Constitution, three unwinnable wars, and three presidential secrets. Presidential biographer and military historian Perret places these men and events in the larger context of the post-World War II world to establish their collective legacy: a presidency so powerful it undermines the checks and balances built into the Constitution, thereby creating a permanent threat to the Constitution itself. Since World War II wars have become tests of stamina rather than strength, and more likely than not they sow the seeds of future wars--yet recent American presidents have chosen to place their country in the forefront of fighting them.--From publisher description
note Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-416) and index
NCID BA86160900
text language code English
author link *Perret, Geoffrey <AU00599317>
classification LCC:E745
classification DC22:355.020973/09045
subject headings United States -- History, Military -- 20th century
subject headings United States -- History, Military -- 21st century
subject headings Intervention (International law)
subject headings Presidents -- United States -- History
subject headings Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
subject headings Korean War, 1950-1953
subject headings Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
subject headings Vietnam War, 1961-1975
subject headings Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
subject headings Iraq War, 2003-
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