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More copies of this ISBN:The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure Americaby Susan Faludi
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and bestselling author of Backlash, examines America's deeply-rooted attitude toward gender and the enduring power of mythic cultural images from the earliest settler wars to our current “war on terror.” In the groundbreaking tradition of Backlash, The Terror Dream looks at the ways in which the media responses to 9/11 manipulated traditional gender roles and rescue fantasies. By returning to America's founding myths, Susan Faludi shows how the terrorist attacks cracked open the master narrative of American prowess. Though they were called unimaginable, the attacks were not the first of their kind; indeed a searing war against European civilians by “terrorists” was the foundational experience of the American colonies. The Terror Dream shows how our original "war on terrorism" formed the American character, and how our attempts to suppress our early vulnerability gave birth to a carefully constructed hero narrative that lives on in current day cinema, television, journalism, and public policy. In an argument that spans from colonial captivity narratives to John Wayne films to the fictional rescue of Jessica Lynch, Faludi brilliantly shows how the shock of 9/11 returned us to the deepest American traditions, how our cultural response exposed a gender myth in which our sense of national invincibility rests on men being heroic rescuers, which in turn requires that women be in need of rescue. In the words of Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed, "This is a book that had to be written, and only Susan Faludi could do it so brilliantly and engrossingly." Review:"This is a book that had to be written, and only Susan Faludi could do it so brilliantly and engrossingly."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "Susan Faludi [is] a relentless reporter, an unapologetic feminist, and a brilliant scourge. . . . Feminism, like a trampoline, has made possible this splendid provocation of a book, levitating to keep company with Hunter Thompson's fear and loathing, Leslie Fielder's love and death, and Edmund Wilson's patriotic gore."--John Leonard, The New York Times Book Review "Faludi has once again described the pushback, the demand to retain the straitjacketed roles that tell us what a man and a woman should be. With a rigorous insistence on truth, not comforting stories, Faludi proposes we can still awaken from the terror dream."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air Synopsis:The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and bestselling author of Backlash, examines America's deeply-rooted attitude toward gender....
Synopsis:It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Susan Faludi brilliantly demonstrates how our culture's seemingly inexplicable response was actually a reflex set centuries deep in the American grain. Her analysis of what went on in the months and years after 9/11 will shock even those who thought they knew the full measure of that tragedy (as her account of the post-9/11 media marketing of flight-suit superheroes, cowering "security moms," Jessica-Lynchesque helpless "girls," and Daniel Boone–wannabe politicians will outrage and amuse). A masterwork of historical interpretation and a Rosetta stone for deciphering the ongoing spectacle of American politics, journalism, and culture, The Terror Dream flushes from hiding a forceful dynamic that disfigures our lives even in times of normalcy, and that, unless it is confronted, will send us reeling in a wrong direction the next time tragedy strikes. About the AuthorSusan Faludi is the author of Stiffed and Backlash, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, among other publications. She lives in San Francisco. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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