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Neverending War on Terror (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

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Neverending War on Terror (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

Alex Lubin, "Neverending War on Terror (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) "
English | ISBN: 0520297415 | 2021 | 152 pages | AZW3 | 363 KB

A concise primer to the political, cultural, and social consequences of the perpetual US global war on terror.

An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment: homeland, security, privacy, torture, and drone. Alex Lubin synthesizes nearly two decades of United States war-making against terrorism by asking how the War on Terror has changed American politics and society, and how the War on Terror draws on historical myths about American national and imperial identity. From the PATRIOT Act to the hit show

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