LEADER 04015nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910460413603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-09623-4 010 $a9786613096234 010 $a0-300-16882-9 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300168822 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079608 035 $a(EBL)3420663 035 $a(OCoLC)923595673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000474144 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11286693 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474144 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10448722 035 $a(PQKB)11649732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420663 035 $a(DE-B1597)485940 035 $a(OCoLC)707082751 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300168822 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420663 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10451034 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309623 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079608 100 $a20100619d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnwarranted influence$b[electronic resource] $eDwight D. Eisenhower and the military-industrial complex /$fJames Ledbetter 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $aIcons of America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-15305-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tOne. Tracking The Unwarranted Influence --$tTwo. Intellectual Origins --$tThree. War, Peace, And Eisenhower --$tFour. Eisenhower's Contentious Second Term --$tFive. The Speech --$tSix. Interpretations and Embellishments --$tSeven. In Full Fury --$tEight. "Eisenhower Must Be Rolling Over In His Grave" --$tAppendix. Eisenhower's Farewell Address --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn Dwight D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex," a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World War II. After the conflict ended, the nation did not abandon its wartime economy but rather the opposite. Military spending has steadily increased, giving rise to one of the key ideas that continues to shape our country's political landscape. In this book, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Eisenhower's farewell address, journalist James Ledbetter shows how the government, military contractors, and the nation's overall economy have become inseparable. Some of the effects are beneficial, such as cell phones, GPS systems, the Internet, and the Hubble Space Telescope, all of which emerged from technologies first developed for the military. But the military-industrial complex has also provoked agonizing questions. Does our massive military establishment-bigger than those of the next ten largest combined-really make us safer? How much of our perception of security threats is driven by the profit-making motives of military contractors? To what extent is our foreign policy influenced by contractors' financial interests? Ledbetter uncovers the surprising origins and the even more surprising afterlife of the military-industrial complex, an idea that arose as early as the 1930's, and shows how it gained traction during World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam era and continues even today. 410 0$aIcons of America. 606 $aCivil-military relations$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMilitary-industrial complex$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCivil-military relations$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary-industrial complex$xHistory 676 $a338.4735500973 700 $aLedbetter$b James$0476018 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460413603321 996 $aUnwarranted influence$9242733 997 $aUNINA