The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush
Mahoney-Norris, Kathleen A., Air & Space Power Journal
The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush by Dale R. Herspring. University Press of Kansas (http:// www.kansaspress.ku.edu), 2502 Westbrooke Circle, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4444, 2005, 512 pages, $45.00 (hardcover).
In this timely book, Dale Herspring-professor of political science at Kansas State University and a 32-year veteran of the US Navy-attempts to redress what he considers an imbalance in past scholarship on civil-military relations in the United States. As Herspring notes, he intends to examine those relations from the vantage point of individuals who are putatively "controlled"-senior military officers-versus the more common …
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Publication information:
Article title: The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush.
Contributors: Mahoney-Norris, Kathleen A. - Author.
Journal title: Air & Space Power Journal.
Volume: 20.
Issue: 1
Publication date: Spring 2006.
Page number: 112+.
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