Peter Roady, "The Contest over National Security: FDR, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American P"
English | ISBN: 0674291255 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 17 MB

A new history shows how FDR developed a vision of national security focused not just on protecting Americans against physical attack but also on ensuring their economic well-being―and how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to narrow its meaning, durably reshaping US politics.

Americans take for granted that national security comprises physical defense against attacks. But the concept of national security once meant something more. Franklin Roosevelt’s vision for national security, Peter Roady argues, promised an alternate path for the United States by devoting as much attention to economic want as to foreign threats. The Contest over National Security