Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush

by John Prados

Book Overview

The author of Presidents' Secret Wars, acclaimed as important and enlightening by The New York Times Book Review, returns with a new book sure to cause a sensation. Keepers of the Keys is nothing less than a complete history of the national security machine: how U.S. presidents use an obscure department not accountable to Congress to run the government. 39 photographs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688073972
• ISBN13: 9780688073978
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 632 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"