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Unwarranted influence [[electronic resource] ] : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the military-industrial complex / / James Ledbetter



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Autore: Ledbetter James Visualizza persona
Titolo: Unwarranted influence [[electronic resource] ] : Dwight D. Eisenhower and the military-industrial complex / / James Ledbetter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
Disciplina: 338.4735500973
Soggetto topico: Civil-military relations - United States - History - 20th century
Military-industrial complex - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-241) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. Tracking The Unwarranted Influence -- Two. Intellectual Origins -- Three. War, Peace, And Eisenhower -- Four. Eisenhower's Contentious Second Term -- Five. The Speech -- Six. Interpretations and Embellishments -- Seven. In Full Fury -- Eight. "Eisenhower Must Be Rolling Over In His Grave" -- Appendix. Eisenhower's Farewell Address -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Unwarranted influence  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-09623-4
9786613096234
0-300-16882-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460413603321
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