The Emergency State: America's Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs
- ISBN-10
- 0143122975
- ISBN-13
- 9780143122975
- Category
- Crisis management
- Pages
- 359
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- David C. Unger
Description
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations provides an analysis of America's narrow-minded focus on security in the years since World War II that has become huge, unwieldy and a detriment to democracy and the economy. 30,000 first printing.
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- 2012-02-16
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