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Total Defense

The New Deal and the Invention of National Security
  • Andrew Preston
2025
Harvard University Press

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  • A political cartoon of the Earth locked in a jail cell guarded by Uncle Sam.
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    Securing the Nation

    The origins of national security.
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    Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State

    How FDR invented national security, and why Democrats need to move on from it.
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    on June 26, 2025
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