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Civic war & the corruption of the citizen / Peter Alexander Meyers.
LIBRA HV6432.7 .M486 2008
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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
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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