In this magisterial book, a prize-winning historian shows how war has defined modern America. Michael Sherry argues that America's intense preoccupation with war emerged on the eve of World War II, marking a turning point as important as the Revolution, the end of the frontier, and other watersheds in American history. In the fifty years since the war, says Sherry, militarization has reshaped every facet of American life: its politics, economics, culture, social relations, and place in the world.

I. The militarization of America: -- 1. Emergence, 1933-1941 -- 2. Triumph, 1941-1945 -- 3. Consolidation, 1945-1953 -- 4. The uneasy balance, 1953-1961 -- 5. The crisis of militarization, 1961-1966 -- II. The reshaping of American militarization: -- 6. The war mentality in triumph, 1966-1974 -- 7. Back to the future, 1975-1981 -- 8. The illusory remilitarization, 1981-1988 -- 9. A farewell to militarization? 1988-1995.

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