{"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":"From 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\"?\n\nThe 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.\n\nBrilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9\/11 revealed about us--and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0805086927\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0805086927.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Faludi, Susan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42993280417853,"sku":"BVV.0805086927.G","price":6.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0805086927-0.jpg?v=1771103727","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-terror-dream-fear-and-fantasy-in-post-9-11-america","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}