The contest over national security : FDR, conservatives, and the struggle to claim the most powerful phrase in American politics /

"In The Contest over National Security Peter Roady shows how Franklin Roosevelt made the Democrats into the party of national security-and how the coalition between business leaders and social conservatives that made modern conservatism possible was cemented during the national security debates...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roady, Peter, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2024.
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Table of Contents:
  • Campaigning on the Promise of Security
  • The Domestic Policy Origins of the National Security State
  • The Conservative Counteroffensive
  • The First Battle over the Government's National Security Responsibilities
  • Foreign Policy as a National Security Matter
  • Roosevelt's Unrealized Vision for a Comprehensive National Security State
  • Separate National Security and Welfare States
  • Cementing a Foreign Policy-Focused National Security State.