What Changed When Everything Changed: 9/11 and the Making of National Identity

by Joseph Margulies

Book Overview

How our national identity has changed in significant and unexpected ways since the attacks of 9/11

Beautifully written and carefully reasoned, this bold and provocative work upends the conventional wisdom about the American reaction to crisis. Margulies demonstrates that for key elements of the post-9/11 landscape--especially support for counterterror policies like torture and hostility to Islam--American identity is not only darker...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300176554
• ISBN13: 9780300176551
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"