The Terror Dream - Couverture souple

Faludi, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312428006 ISBN 13 : 9780312428006

Editeur : Picador, 2008

Synopsis

It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Susan Faludi brilliantly demonstrates how our culture's seemingly inexplicable response was actually a reflex set centuries deep in the American grain. Her analysis of what went on in the months and years after 9/11 will shock even those who thought they knew the full measure of that tragedy (as her account of the post-9/11 media marketing of flight-suit superheroes, cowering "security moms," Jessica-Lynchesque helpless "girls," and Daniel Boone-wannabe politicians will outrage and amuse).

A masterwork of historical interpretation and a Rosetta stone for deciphering the ongoing spectacle of American politics, journalism, and culture, The Terror Dream flushes from hiding a forceful dynamic that disfigures our lives even in times of normalcy, and that, unless it is confronted, will send us reeling in a wrong direction the next time tragedy strikes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Faludi is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Terror Dream, Stiffed, and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and The Baffler, among other publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Picador
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312428006
• ISBN 13: 9780312428006
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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