"An exposé of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war"--

Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become--how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.

"The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon with the troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"-- As a child, Alexander listened to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. Obsessed with...

"A new account of America's most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America's current imperial stance."--Provided by publisher.

The Pentagon's a strange place. Inside secure command centers, military officials make life and death decisions -- but the Pentagon also offers food courts, banks, drugstores, florists, and chocolate shops. When Rosa Brooks gave her family a tour, her mother gaped at the glossy window displays: "So the heart of American military power is a shopping mall?" In a sense, yes: the U.S. military has become our one-stop-shopping solution to global problems....

A profile of the controversial Italian poet and nationalist is set against a backdrop of Italy's transition from Romantic idealism to fascism and war and includes coverage of such topics as his contradictory literary subjects and status as a role model for Mussolini.