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Absolute Power - The Frontier: When Absolute Power Meets Zero Accountability
Paperback
Series: Absolute Power, Book 3
General United States HistoryInternational RelationsWorld War II
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Absolute power does not require evil men. It requires secrecy, an emergency, a small circle of decision-makers, and no one watching.
Across three volumes, Absolute Power traces how democracies build machinery meant to face an emergency and then cannot put it down: how a wartime exception becomes a permanent capability, how a weapon aimed outward turns and comes home, and how each new frontier - from the battlefield to the drug war to the vacuum above the atmosphere - outruns the last inspector who could have watched it.
Documented narrative nonfiction about emergency powers, accountability, and what happens when the thing built to be watched moves somewhere no one can look. Read in order.
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