The Contest over National Security : FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics

Name: The Contest over National Security : FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

\u201COne of the most interesting books I have read on national security\u2026Readable and intellectually stimulating.\u201D \u2014Peter Bergen, CNN National Security AnalystA new history shows how FDR developed a vision of national security focused not just on protecting Americans against physical attack but also on ensuring their economic well-being\u2014and how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to narrow its meaning, durably reshaping US politics.\nAmericans take for granted that national security comprises physical defense against attacks. But the concept of national security once meant something more. Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s vision for national security, Peter Roady argues, promised an alternate path for the United States by devoting as much attention to economic want as to foreign threats. The\n\nThe Contest over National Security \u2013 FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics\nFDR, Conservatives, and the Stru;