What Changed When Everything Changed 9/11 and the Making of National Identity

Name: What Changed When Everything Changed 9/11 and the Making of National Identity
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ISBN: 9780300176551

ISBN-10: 0300176554

ISBN-13: 9780300176551

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joseph Margulies

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Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape—especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam—American identity is not only darker than it was before September 11, 2001, but substantially more repressive than it was immediately after the attacks. These repressive attitudes, Margulies shows us, have taken hold even as the terrorist threat has diminished significantly. Contrary to what is widely imagined, at the moment of greatest perceived threat, when the fear of another attack “hung over…

Book details

List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 392
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.95" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



"What the United States of America Is All About at Our Core"



Making National Identity



"The Ceaseless Striving to Live Out Our True Creed"



The Dark Side of the Creed



History Makes No Sharp Turns



Race and Religion in National Identity



The Punitive Turn



Preservation and Transformation



"A Fight for Our Principles"



"We Need to Bring the News to People"



"A War for the Survival of America"



"Think the Unthinkable"



"Can You Think of Anything More Un-American?"



"Must We Sell Our Birthright?"



The Paradox of the Obama Era



All Will Be as It Ought to Be


Notes


Permissions


Index