American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety (Repost)
Peter N. Stearns "American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety"
Routledge | 2006-10-05 | ISBN: 0415955424 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Routledge | 2006-10-05 | ISBN: 0415955424 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A small town in Maryland installed surveillance cameras on the town hall, paid for by the Department of Homeland Security. The state of Kentucky received a similar grant to protect bingo parlors from attack, and the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota deployed a $145,000 bomb-dismantling robot against a backpack left by vagrants under a pine tree, which turned out to contain nothing more than bricks. These are just a few examples of American responses to fear in the post-9/11 world.