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1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 25 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Beth McDonald. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Political culture -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
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September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Psychological aspects.
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Fear -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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National characteristics, American.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
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McDonald, Beth, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781427202192 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1427202192 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11810401 |
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