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Reign of Terror - How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Paperback)
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Reign of Terror - How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Paperback)
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A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 "An impressive
combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman's deep
stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full
effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is
upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." -The New York Times
"One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era."
-New York Magazine An examination of the profound impact that the
War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an
authoritarian direction For an entire generation, at home and
abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as
the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era
pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance;
weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions; sanctioned
torture; and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts
have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed
America. What began as the persecution of Muslims and immigrants
has become a normalized feature of American politics and national
security, expanding the possibilities for applying similar or worse
measures against other targets at home, as the summer of 2020
showed. A politically divided and economically destabilized country
turned the War on Terror into a cultural-and then a
tribal-struggle. It began on the ideological frontiers of the
Republican Party before expanding to conquer the GOP, often with
the acquiescence of the Democratic Party. Today's nativist
resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that
door remains open. Reign of Terror shows how these developments
created an opportunity for American authoritarianism and gave rise
to Donald Trump. It shows that Barack Obama squandered an
opportunity to dismantle the War on Terror after killing Osama bin
Laden. By the end of his tenure, the war had metastasized into a
bitter, broader cultural struggle in search of a demagogue like
Trump to lead it. Reign of Terror is a pathbreaking and definitive
union of journalism and intellectual history with the power to
transform how America understands its national security policies
and their catastrophic impact on civic life.
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