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Author Savage, Charlie, author.

Title Power wars : inside Obama's post-9/11 presidency / Charlie Savage.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  353 SAVAGE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  973.932 S92P    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 769 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Contents page lists "index" beginning on page 771; index not included in the book, but unnumbered page 771 refers to an online index at charliesavage.com/powerwarsindex.
Summary Recounts how the Obama administration has responded to and been shaped by the international dynamics of the post-September 11 world.
Bibliography Includes annotated bibliographical references (pages 705-769).
Contents Part I. Obama's 9/11. The captive ; Acting like Bush ; Things fall apart -- Part II. War in the twenty-first century. Look forward, not back (Captives 2009) ; Stellarwind (Surveillance 1928-2009) ; Targeted killing -- Part III. The security state. Ratchet (Captives 2010-2011) ; The leak crackdown ; Secrecy and secret law -- Part IV. American-style democracy. Wounds the won't heal (Captives 2011-2015) ; Institutionalized (Surveillance 2009-2015) ; The tug of war.
Subject Obama, Barack.
National security -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Obama, Barack. (OCoLC)fst00348231
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp. (OCoLC)fst01783445
National security. (OCoLC)fst01033711
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01148127
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term Since 2000
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780316286572 (hardcover)
0316286575 (hardcover)
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