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What changed when everything changed : 9/11 and the making of national identity /

Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape--especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam-...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Margulies, Joseph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "What the United States of America is all about at our core"
  • "The ceaseless striving to live out our true creed"
  • The dark side of the creed
  • Race and religion in national identity
  • The punitive turn
  • "A fight for our principles"
  • "We need to bring the news to people"
  • "A war for the survival of America"
  • "Think the unthinkable"
  • "Can you think of anything more un-American?"
  • "Must we sell our birthright?"
  • The paradox of the Obama era
  • All will be as it ought to be.