A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011 When incidents of
extreme violence flare in America, all too often they are framed as
isolated aberrations. Nothing could be further from the truth, as
Christopher Strain argues in his new book, Reload: Rethinking
Violence in American Life. The unpleasant fact, as he reveals in
this highly readable study, is that American violence is
inextricably woven into the fabric of our national heritage and
experience. In Reload, Strain traces our modern-day conception of
violence from the struggle to survive on the American frontier,
through evolving gender roles in recent centuries, to the hysteria
surrounding video and role-playing games and the more recent
disturbing phenomenon of school shootings. Strain shapes nothing
less than a profound meditation on American violence and a "primer"
on understanding what can often appear to be a profoundly dangerous
nation. In addition to serving as a comprehensive overview of the
state of violence in America, Reload also suggests ways of
combating the trends that lead to tragedy.
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