Politics

Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

WTTW News | February 1, 2010, 7:00 pm

Prolific writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shares why he believes the atomic bomb transformed not just the nation but also presidential powers.

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