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THE TERROR DREAM
WHAT 9/11 REVEALED ABOUT AMERICA |
| By: |
Susan Faludi |
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Paperback |
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£22.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843547791 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843547792 |
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| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.' Publishers Weekly starred boxed reviewFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the international bestselller Backlash - an unflinchingly critical and strikingly original dissection of the mind and soul of America since 9/11. |
| Synopsis: |
In this remarkable and strikingly original examination of America post-9/11, Susan Faludi shines a light on the psychological response to the attacks. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why did Americans respond to an assault against their global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore 'traditional' manhood, marriage and maternity? Why did they react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fuelled by hatred of Western emancipation lead them to a regressive fixation on 'Doris Day' womanhood and 'John Wayne' masculinity, with trembling mothers, swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the 'rescue' of a female soldier, Jessica Lynch, cast as a 'helpless little girl'?The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a uniquely American historical anomaly: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults on town and village by non-white 'barbarians'. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms. The Terror Dream is a brilliant and important new look at what 9/11 revealed about America. |
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UK |
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Atlantic Books |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Criticism 2008 |
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