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Divided by Terror - American Patriotism after 9/11 (Hardcover)
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Divided by Terror - American Patriotism after 9/11 (Hardcover)
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Americans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September
11, 2001, with an outpouring of patriotism, though all were not
united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired
millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on
Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while many other Americans demanded
an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and
suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later, the war still
simmers, and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical
understandings of 9/11's legacy and the political life of the
nation. John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on
America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of
political and cultural conflict, revealing how fierce debates over
the war are inseparable from debates about the meaning of
patriotism itself. Bodnar probes how honor, brutality, trauma, and
suffering have become highly contested in commemorations,
congressional correspondence, films, soldier memoirs, and works of
art. He concludes that Americans continue to be deeply divided over
the War on Terror and how to define the terms of their
allegiance--a fissure that has deepened as American politics has
become dangerously polarized over the first two decades of this new
century.
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