{"product_id":"the-terror-dream-fear-and-fantasy-in-post-9-11-america","title":"The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9\/11 America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0805086927\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Faludi, Susan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9\/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9\/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore \"traditional\" manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling \"security moms,\" swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the \"rescue\" of a female soldier cast as a \"helpless little girl\"?The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite \"barbarians\" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9\/11 revealed about us--and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49681033167088,"sku":"NEW0805086927","price":13.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/the-terror-dream-fear-and-fantasy-in-post-9-11-america","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}