"A masterful achievement...[Carroll's] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold." Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States
"One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll's House of War." Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald Reagan
From the National Book Awardwinning author of An American Requiem and Constantine's Sword comes a sweeping yet intimate look at the Pentagon and its vastoften hiddenimpact on America.
This landmark, myth-shattering work chronicles the most powerful institution in America, the people who created it, and the pathologies it has spawned. James Carroll proves a controversial thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the biggest, loosest cannon in American history, and no institutio
