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

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.

Cold War.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Civic war and the corruption of the citizen

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that this Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time-"everything changed on 9/11!"-is false and per

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note to the Reader

Port of Entry

1. From Shock to Terror

2. From Terror to War

3. The Circle of War and Emergency

4. The Norm of Complicity and the Regeneration of Emergency through Violence

5. The Cold War Is Not Over

6. The Distemper of Monocracy

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-342) and index.

ISBN:

9786612070068

9781282070066

1282070061

9780226522104

0226522105

OCLC:

646810166