Drift by Rachel Maddow

Drift by Rachel Maddow

The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war.

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. 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 Reagan's radical presidency, 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. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse.

Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift reinvigorates a loud and jangly political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.

Since 2008, Rachel Maddow has been the host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. She had previously worked with Air America Radio for the entirety of that underappreciated venture. She holds an Oxford doctorate in politics and a Stanford bachelor's degree in public policy. With her spouse, artist Susan Mikula, and an big dog, she splits her time between rural western Massachusetts and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780307460998
ISBN 10	0307460991
Title	Drift
Author	Rachel Maddow
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Year published	2013-03-05
Number of pages	288
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