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Takes us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. This title reveals how the domestic political culture created by the cold war has driven these developments forward since 9/11.

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"This is among the most important analyses that I've seen of what has happened to politics in the wake of the September 11 attacks. No other thinker has so clearly articulated how both terrorism and the response to it threaten democracy by suppressing contentious political speech. Meyers's argument is timely, impressively learned, and compelling." - Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council"

Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/12/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226522081, 978-0226522081
      ISBN10: 0226522083
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Takes us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. This title reveals how the domestic political culture created by the cold war has driven these developments forward since 9/11.

      Trade Review
      "This is among the most important analyses that I've seen of what has happened to politics in the wake of the September 11 attacks. No other thinker has so clearly articulated how both terrorism and the response to it threaten democracy by suppressing contentious political speech. Meyers's argument is timely, impressively learned, and compelling." - Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council"

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