{"id":560,"date":"2012-02-15T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2019-12-03T05:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:04:57","slug":"bomb-power-the-modern-presidency-and-the-national-security-state-by-garry-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/bomb-power-the-modern-presidency-and-the-national-security-state-by-garry-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Power The Modern Presidency and the National Security State by Garry Wills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em>Book Review by George Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Bomb-Power-The-Modern-Presidency-and-the-National-Security-State-by-Garry-Wills.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-561\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The Manhattan Project shaped the modern presidency\u2019s power over the Constitution unlike any event in the history of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A consequence of developing \u201cThe Bomb\u201d was an unprecedented expansion of Executive Branch power which presidents since Harry Truman to Barack Obama are loathe to relinquish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wills recounts the controversial history of presidential decision making since 1945 and the ramifications for current policymaking. No ideological assertions; just the facts, which are not always flattering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garry Wills has written many acclaimed and bestselling works, including Lincoln at Gettysburg, Cincinnati: George Washington and the Enlightenment, What Jesus Meant, and Head and Heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His books have received many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. A professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University, Wills is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review by George Kennedy The Manhattan Project shaped the modern presidency\u2019s power over the Constitution unlike any event in the history of the United States. A consequence of developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bookshelf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgealfredkennedy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}