{"product_id":"homeland-the-war-on-terror-in-american-life-hardcover","title":"Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Beck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking history of how the decades-long war on terror changed virtually every aspect of American life, from the erosion of citizenship down to the cars we bought and TV we watched--by an acclaimed \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e writer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Richard Beck, like many people alive today, has spent his adult life living in the shadow of 9\/11, and \u003ci\u003eHomeland \u003c\/i\u003eis a devastating inquiry into the new world that day created.\"--Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor twenty years after September 11, the war on terror was simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. With all of the military violence occurring overseas even as the threat of sudden mass death permeated life at home, Americans found themselves living in two worlds at the same time. In one of them, soldiers fought overseas so that nothing at home would have to change at all. In the other, life in the United States took on all kinds of unfamiliar shapes, changing people's sense of themselves, their neighbors, and the strangers they sat next to on airplanes. In \u003ci\u003eHomeland, \u003c\/i\u003e Richard Beck delivers a gripping exploration of how much the war changed life in the United States and explains why there is no going back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough much has been made of the damage that Donald Trump did to the American political system, Beck argues that it was the war on terror that made Trump's presidency possible, fueling and exacerbating a series of crises that all came to a head with his rise to power. \u003ci\u003eHomeland\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly isolates and explores four key issues: the militarism that swept through American politics and culture; the racism and xenophobia that boiled over in much of the country; an economic crisis that, Beck convincingly argues, connects the endurance of the war on terror to at least the end of the Second World War; and a lack of accountability that produced our \"impunity culture\"--the government-wide inability or refusal to face consequences that has transformed how the U.S. government relates to the people it governs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo see American life through the lens of \u003ci\u003eHomeland'\u003c\/i\u003es sweeping argument is to understand the roots of our current condition. In its startling analysis of how the war on terror hollowed out the very idea of citizenship in the United States, Beck gives the most compelling explanation yet offered for the ongoing disintegration of America's social, political, and cultural fabric.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Beck \u003c\/b\u003eis an editor at \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Believe the Children\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52749443957069,"sku":"9780593240229","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/BMyPKO9Pg09780593240229.webp?v=1762898128","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/homeland-the-war-on-terror-in-american-life-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}