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HBO is the only place this could ever be made. It's epic and episodic, provocative and relevant.
It's the true story of a five-sided building in Foggy Bottom, erected at the dawn of America's birth as a nuclear power. A story seen through the eyes of a boy, born on the day the Pentagon broke ground, whose life tracks that of our country's struggle with its power, politics and paranoia.
From Curtis LeMay's fire bombing of Japan with his statistician Robert MacNamera in tow... to the suicide of our 1st secretary of defense, James Forrestal... to the Berlin air-drop bringing Kennedy to the brink with Kruschev...... to Nixon's drunken bravado and nuclear bluff "... taking nuclear weapons and putting them on B52s, but taking some of those B52s, flying them close to the Soviet Union so the Soviets would know that we mean business."... to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the terrorist threat as the century turned.
The characters we know well are revealed in their most trying hours. Some lesser known or forgotten emerge as pivotal players. The story that sews it all together is the boy's on again off again connection with his father, a man who studied to become a priest and wound up a spy and then a 3 star General. A boy grappling with his love for family and country and his ever-deepening fear of war.
Its a perfect fit for the John Adams model series.
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House of War by James Carroll
Aug 4, 2009 9:27 PM
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HBO is the only place this could ever be made. It's epic and episodic, provocative and relevant.
It's the true story of a five-sided building in Foggy Bottom, erected at the dawn of America's birth as a nuclear power. A story seen through the eyes of a boy, born on the day the Pentagon broke ground, whose life tracks that of our country's struggle with its power, politics and paranoia.
From Curtis LeMay's fire bombing of Japan with his statistician Robert MacNamera in tow... to the suicide of our 1st secretary of defense, James Forrestal... to the Berlin air-drop bringing Kennedy to the brink with Kruschev...... to Nixon's drunken bravado and nuclear bluff "... taking nuclear weapons and putting them on B52s, but taking some of those B52s, flying them close to the Soviet Union so the Soviets would know that we mean business."... to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the terrorist threat as the century turned.
The characters we know well are revealed in their most trying hours. Some lesser known or forgotten emerge as pivotal players. The story that sews it all together is the boy's on again off again connection with his father, a man who studied to become a priest and wound up a spy and then a 3 star General. A boy grappling with his love for family and country and his ever-deepening fear of war.
Its a perfect fit for the John Adams model series.
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