Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

by Rachel Maddow

Book Overview

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Found?ers could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rust?ing nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307460983
• ISBN13: 9780307460981
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.3"