What changed when everything changed 9/11 and the making of national identity
"In this startling analysis of the direction of America's political conversation since the events of September 11, 2001, Joseph Margulies traces the evolution of American identity. He shows that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape--especially support for counterterror policies like...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2013
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Table of Contents:
- "What the United States of America is all about at our core"
- "The ceaseless striving to live out our true creed"
- The dark side of the creed
- Race and religion in national identity
- The punitive turn
- "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 irthright?"
- The paradox of the Obama era
- All will be as it ought to be