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Fortress America How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

Elaine Tyler May

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any othe...

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The book was recommended as a history of fear and violence in late20thcentury America.

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I really like Elaine Tyler May's history Fortress America, which talks about the way that fear and violence have been built into our politics and daily lives.

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The book was recommended as a history of fear and violence in late20thcentury America.

"

I really like Elaine Tyler May's history Fortress America, which talks about the way that fear and violence have been built into our politics and daily lives.

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