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Author Savage, Charlie, author.

Title Power wars : the relentless rise of presidential authority and secrecy / Charlie Savage.

Edition Revised edition.
First Back Bay Books trade paperback edition.
Publication Info. New York : Back Bay Books : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1825886~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  973.932 SAV    AVAILABLE
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Description xxviii, 818 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 2015 as Power wars: inside Obama's post-9/11 presidency.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Obama's 9/11. The captive ; Acting like Bush tThings fall apart -- Part II. War in the twenty-first century. Look forward, not back (Captives 2009) ; Stellarwind (Surveillance 1928-2009) ; Targeted killing -- Part III. The security state. Ratchet (Captives 2010-2011) ; The leak crackdown ; Secrecy and secret law -- Part IV. American-style democracy. Wounds the won't heal (Captives 2011-2017) ; Institutionalized (Surveillance 2009-2017) ; The tug of wars
Summary Recounts how the Obama administration has responded to and been shaped by the international dynamics of the post-September 11 world
Subject Obama, Barack.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2009-2017.
United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
National security -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- United States.
National security -- Law and legislation -- United States.
ISBN 9780316286596 paperback
0316286591 paperback
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