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I've never found a truly good single-volume book on the design/development of the aircraft carrier in general, but I've found a couple that are excellent for specific nations.
US Aircraft Carriers: A Design History by Norman Friedman is... well, the history of US Aircraft Carrier design, from pre-WWII to the supercarriers.
British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development and Service Histories by David Hobbs is the same thing as the previously mentioned book, but covering things like seaplane carriers, amphibious assault ships, and even Project Habbakuk (gee, why would that interest me?) as well as traditional flat-tops.
>where did you get that figure from? USNI says the magazines of the Nimitz-class can hold "1,954 tons of aviation ordnance."
Norman Friedman.
Friedman's US Carriers: An Illustrated Design History has a chapter on the postwar upgrades for the Essex, Midway, and even CVE classes, including what was carried out, what remained plans, and the bureaucratic processes that drove it all.
For example, there was actually a postwar proposal to give CVEs angled flight decks, but they couldn't drum up money for it: http://i.imgur.com/dvMIsqr.png