The Terror Dream
Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by Susan Faludi

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• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Genres: politics, feminism, history, sociology, gender, terrorism, womens
• Release date: October 2, 2007
• Language: english
• Format: hardcover, 368 pages
• Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2007), Best Book of Ideas Prize Nominee (2009)
• Author: Susan Faludi
• ISBN: 9780805086928 (0805086927)

About The Book

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11

In this most original examination of America’s post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country’s psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore “traditional” manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling “security moms,” swaggering presidential gunslingers, and the “rescue” of a female soldier cast as a “helpless little girl”?

The answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by nonwhite “barbarians” on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms.

Brilliant and important, The Terror Dream shows what 9/11 revealed about us — and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.

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