The Terror Dream : What 9/11 Revealed about America Paperback / softback
by Susan Faludi
Paperback / softback
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Shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Non-fiction, 2008'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.' -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:01/03/2008
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- ISBN:9781843547792
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Atlantic Books
- Publication Date:01/03/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781843547792