Four questions -- Uneasy warriors -- How the Democrats won World War II -- Building the national security state -- Making China right -- High noon at mid-century -- Make missiles, not budgets -- The Cuban Missile Crisis revisited -- Running scared into Vietnam -- Ending the draft -- No room for a Republican center -- The lost Democratic opportunity -- Rambo meets The deer hunter -- Counter-attack -- What comes next? -- Fighting conservatism on Capitol Hill -- 9/11 -- Mission accomplished? -- Politics at the water's edge
Summary
It has long been a truism that prior to George W. Bush, politics stopped at the water's edge--that is, that partisanship had no place in national security. In Arsenal of Democracy, historian Julian E. Zelizer shows this to be demonstrably false: partisan fighting has always shaped American foreign policy and the issue of national security has always been part of our domestic conflicts
Notes
[Paperback edition 2012]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-562) and index
