Killing Machine: The American Presidency in the Age of Drone Warfare

(Hardback)

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From the devastatingly effective' (Andrew Bacevich) chronicler of American foreign policy, a scathing new assessment of the hawkish militarism of the American presidency in the 21st century.'

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A Publishers Weekly Book of the Week (November 11, 2013)

"Gardner delivers an engrossing blow-by-blow account of a decade of fierce debates and painful events that offer excruciating parallels with the Vietnam War."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Gardner's treatment of this brave new mode of presidential war-making is admirably comprehensive."
Bookforum

Author Bio

Lloyd C. Gardner is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including "The Long Road to Baghdad" and "Three Kings" (both available from The New Press). He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania.