Drift – Rachel Maddow
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“One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of “privateers”; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with an unproven counterinsurgency doctrine.
Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow’s Drift argues that we’ve drifted away from America’s original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails. To understand how we’ve arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today’s war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. She offers up a fresh, unsparing appraisal of Reagan’s radical presidency. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the priorities of the national security state to overpower our political discourse.
Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift will reinvigorate a “loud and jangly” political debate about how, when, and where to apply America’s strength and power–and who gets to make those decisions.
Chapters
Ch00 Prologue: Is It Too Late to Descope This?
Ch01 G.I. Joe, Ho Chi Minh, and the American Art of Fighting about Fighting
Ch02 A Nation at Peace Everywhere in the World
Ch03 Let ‘Er Fly
Ch04 Isle of Spice
Ch05 Stupid Regulations
Ch06 Mylanta, ‘Tis of Thee
Ch07 Doing More with Less (Hassle)
Ch08 “One Hell of a Killing Machine”
Ch09 An $8 Trillion Fungus Among Us
Ch10 Epilogue: You Build It, You Own It
About the Author
RACHEL MADDOW has hosted the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC since 2008. Before that, she was at Air America Radio for the duration of that underappreciated enterprise. She has a doctorate in politics from Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford. She lives in rural western Massachusetts and New York City with her partner, artist Susan Mikula, and an enormous dog.
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Album : Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Unabridged)
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