How to Control the Military
by Galbraith, John Kenneth
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Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Good. 69, [1] pages. Footnotes. Ex. Library copy, with usual library markings. Ink name of previous owner inside front board. John Kenneth Galbraith OC (October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006), also known as Ken Galbraith, was a Canadian-American economist, public official and diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers from the 1950s through the 2000s, a time during which Galbraith fulfilled the role of public intellectual. As an economist, he leaned toward post-Keynesian economics from an institutionalist perspective. Galbraith was a long-time Harvard faculty member and stayed with Harvard University for half a century as a professor of economics. He was a prolific author and wrote four dozen books, including several novels, and published more than a thousand articles and essays on various subjects. Among his works was a trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). Galbraith was active in Democratic Party politics, serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He served as United States Ambassador to India under the Kennedy administration. His political activism, literary output and outspokenness brought him wide fame during his lifetime. Galbraith was one of the few to receive both the World War II Medal of Freedom (1946) and the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2000) for his public service and contributions to science. The government of France made him a Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur. The famous economist examines Pentagon spending following the Vietnam experience. This is a book about survival--the survival of American society, of fundamental democratic principles, and of humankind itself. Specifically, it is a closely-reasoned primer on the military-industrial complex which threatens that survival: how it developed, how it wields power and how it can be controlled.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- How to Control the Military
- Author
- Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition, First printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Defense Spending, Vietnam Experience, Civil-Military Relations, Military Spending, Military-Industrial Complex, Civilian Control, Pentagon, Military Expenditures
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