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Presidents and their generals : an American history of command in war /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moten, Matthew, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Presidents > United States > History.
Generals > United States > History.
Command of troops > History.
Civil-military relations > United States > History.
United States > History, Military.
United States > Military policy.
United States > Politics and government.
Civil-military relations.
Command of troops.
Generals.
Military policy.
Political science.
Presidents.
United States.
History.
Military history.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Setting precedents
  • George Washington and the Continental Congress
  • Adams, Washington, and Hamilton
  • Mr. Madison's war
  • Polk against his generals
  • Lincoln's letter to Hooker
  • The politics of collaboration
  • Lincoln and Grant
  • The pershing paradox
  • Roosevelt, Marshall, and Hopkins
  • The perils of partisanship
  • Exit MacArthur
  • Taylor's theory
  • Powell's doctrine
  • Rumsfeld's assumptions.