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Civic war & the corruption of the citizen / Peter Alexander Meyers.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Meyers, Peter Alexander.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.
United States.
Politics and government.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Cold War.
Physical Description:
xiii, 361 pages ; 24 cm
Other Title:
Civic war and the corruption of the citizen
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Contents:
From shock to terror
From terror to war
The circle of war and emergency
The norm of complicity and the regeneration of emergency through violence
The Cold War is not over
The distemper of monocracy
The Cold War today
Today's Cold War in the system of opportunism
Civic war and the monocratic tendency
Two poles of power : monocratic omnipotence and Jeffersonian justification
Phases of communication : secrets, lies, and publicness
The export of "moral clarity"
The Cold War comes home : the revival of Reaganism
The breeding ground of monocracy
The constitution of power and the corruption of the citizen after September 11th.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-342) and index.
ISBN:
9780226522081
0226522083
OCLC:
213479921

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