false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg 358214 2 This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more. To argue his case, he marshals a trove of often chilling evidence. He recounts how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power'from the unprecedented aerial bombing of Germany and Japan during World War II to the "shock and awe" of Iraq. He charts the colossal U.S. nuclear buildup, which far outpaced that of the USSR and has outlived it. He reveals how consistently the Building has found new enemies just as old threatsand fundingevaporate. He demonstrates how Pentagon policy brought about U.S. indifference to an epidemic of genocide during the 1990s. And he shows how the forces that attacked the Pentagon on 9/11 were set in motion exactly sixty years earlier, on September 11, 1941, when ground was broken for the house of war. Carroll draws on rich personal experience (his father was a top Pentagon official for more than twenty years) as well as exhaustive research and extensive interviews with Washington insiders, from Robert McNamara to John McCain to William Cohen to John Kerry. The result is a grand yet intimate work of history, unashamedly polemical and personal but unerringly factual. 587663 2006 House of War total:47|5:0|4:0|3:0|2:0|1:0| 47 198 101 14 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 3 1 false Mon Oct 20 02:08:58 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 16 14:45:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 08:25:41 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 08:35:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Wed Apr 15 13:11:09 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 13:11:09 -0700 2009
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has understood that out M-I Complex was a monster out-of-control all this time, and that probably people were able to become Preside...more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 14:11:54 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 14:11:54 -0700 2007 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 03 12:25:29 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 05:15:00 -0800 2008 A Course in Miracles. "You become what you fight" comes to mind as well.

James Carroll is uniquely qualified to write this book, being the son of an air-force officer, and having grown up around the Pentagon culture. The book ...more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 4 0 false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Sep 22 11:54:27 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 13:55:50 -0700 2007 House of War is a very enlightening (if frustrating) read into the history of U.S. war diplomacy and foreign relations, with a tight focus on the pentagon. In my opinion, Carroll pr...more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 4 0 false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Sep 09 18:25:43 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 18:25:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Sun Nov 16 06:17:46 -0800 2008 Tue Jun 23 07:00:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 4 0 false Sun Jun 21 22:15:36 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 22:16:45 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 3 0 false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 19 11:17:39 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 04 09:24:56 -0700 2009
The part I liked was the personal element, in which he relates his growing up with his father, an FBI agent turned Air Force intelligence officer. The part I didn't mind was the history of the nuclear arms race, despite some minor inaccuracies that I detected here an...more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 09 09:53:55 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 10:00:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jun 27 20:50:24 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 05 13:51:06 -0700 2008 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 4 0 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 01 06:51:29 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 01 08:28:58 -0700 2007 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Mon Sep 29 04:55:52 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 04:58:12 -0700 2008 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Sat Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 19:47:36 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 19:47:49 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Wed Oct 07 15:16:55 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 15:16:55 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Tue Oct 06 15:19:20 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 15:19:20 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Wed Sep 09 08:09:14 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 08:09:16 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 5 0 false Sat Aug 29 22:54:39 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 22:54:39 -0700 2009 358214 0618187804 9780618187805 41 14 4.21 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174072517m/358214.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/358214.House_of_War 0 0 false Sun Aug 16 18:17:21 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 18:17:21 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=358214