![]() ![]() Reinvigorates a loud and jangly political debate about our vast and confounding national security state. Books by Rachel Maddow (Author of Drift) Books by Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow Average rating 4. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddows. ![]() Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, The 1 New York Times bestseller that charts Americas dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow'sĪrgues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. Bestseller that charts America's dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. ![]()
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