| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 303 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290) and index. |
| Contents |
In the beginning: "the power of war and peace" -- "Not only war but public war": congressional authority in the new nation -- "A war unjust and unnecessary": seizing a continental empire -- "The great exigencies of government": the Civil War -- "Remember the Maine": the birth of imperial America -- "We must have no criticism now": the war to end all wars -- "The sole organ of the nation": the birth of the imperial presidency -- "The very bring of constitutional power": Japanese Americans and German saboteurs -- "A world-wide American empire": the imperial presidency in the Cold War -- "What every schoolboy knows": Vietnam and congressional abdication -- "We were going to war": from the Gulf War to Afghanistan -- "We will not hesitate to act alone": the American colossus in the age of preemptive war -- "The constitution is just a piece of paper": empire vs. democracy. |
| Subject |
War and emergency powers -- United States -- History.
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| ISBN |
0805075933 |
| Standard No. |
9780805075939 |
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