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HOUSE OF WAR, by James Carroll
(Houghton Mifflin, $30; release date May 16, 2006)

Published on May 11, 2006

With the revealing subtitle The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power, this is essentially an expanded rewrite of Smedley Butler’s 1935 anti-war pamphlet War Is a Racket. Carroll traces the history of the Pentagon, and the entire military apparatus of the United States — working on the fundamental assumption that all of America’s [...]