The Pentagon; politics, profits and plunder, by Clark R. Mollenhoff.

Author
Mollenhoff, Clark R. (Clark Raymond), 1921-1991 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, Putnam [1967]
Description
450 pages 22 cm

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    Contents
    • If power corrupts
    • Persistent problems
    • Corrupters, pacifists and politicians
    • The ordeal of General Billy Mitchell
    • Pearl Harbor
    • caught napping
    • War contracts
    • Mayor Curley and Commander Corrigan
    • Senator Bilbo and Congressman May
    • Howard Hughes
    • White House connection
    • Benny Meyers
    • a corrupt general
    • Reorganization and questionable economy
    • The five-percenters
    • Korea
    • a jolting reality
    • The chamber of horrors
    • Eisenhower's "New look"
    • The Army-McCarthy hearings
    • Remember Harry (The Hat) Lev
    • Harold Talbott
    • a conflict of interest?
    • Air power controversy
    • Managing the missiles
    • Muzzle for the GAO watchdog
    • The Army and the "limited war"
    • McNamara the man
    • Military arrogance at Fort Lee
    • Muzzling the military men?
    • A pyramid of profits
    • Aerospace
    • a nonprofit Frankenstein
    • The manned bomber fuss
    • The controversial TFX
    • Roz Gilpatric and Fred Korth
    • Killing the nuclear carrier
    • Base closings
    • Mayor Ryan and the Pentagon
    • Counting the confidential cash
    • The army's combat readiness
    • Widening credibility gap
    • The problems of centralized power
    • Appendix A: Expenditures, fiscal years 1925-1964
    • Appendix B: Military procurement by states for 1963, 1964, and 1965
    • Appendix C: Contracts negotiated and advertised for bids from 1951 through 1965
    • Appendix D: Defense personnel, military and civilian, by states for fiscal year 1965.
    LCCN
    67010958
    OCLC
    1315374
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