In the Shadow of the Garrison State
America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy
by Aaron L. Friedberg
Princeton Univ. Press, 416 pp., $ 69.50
Was the price of victory in the Cold War the creation of a “garrison state” in the United States? Did we have to create “Fortress America,” which signaled to liberals a dangerous militarization of American society, even as conservatives worried about a new federal octopus whose tentacles increasingly strangled personal liberty and free enterprise?
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