The Contest Over National Security: Fdr, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American Politics (Roady Peter)(Pevná vazba)

A new history shows how FDR developed a vision of national security focused on both defense planning and domestic welfare--and how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to redefine the issue, durably reshaping US politics. Americans take for granted that national security comprises physical defense against attacks, enabled by military might and shrewd foreign policy. But the concept of national security once meant something else. Franklin Roosevelt's vision for national security, Peter Roady argues, promised an alternate path for American politics by devoting as much attention to economic and social policy as to war and diplomacy. The Fight for National Security traces how the nascent conservative movement, roused by the ambitions of the New Deal, successfully contested FDR's ideas and inaugurated the narrower approach to national security that has
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