The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America | Susan Faludi

The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America | Susan Faludi | They got it wrong, as usual

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	The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America Susan Faludi Metropolitan Books, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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Read Faludi's New Book Before You Vote.

The contemporary American political climate is particularly informed and shaped by race and gender because the top contenders for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential campaign are a white woman and a black man. These demographic realities are simultaneously obvious, important and ignored. What is troubling is not that Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama may very well become president, but that while the media appears to be more-or-less self-correcting in filtering-out racism in its coverage of Obama's campaign, it is consistent in its sexist coverage of Clinton's campaign. Why? Faludi's "The Terror Dream" offers a coherent and mature perspective that suggests, if not a resolution of this paradox, then at least further understanding of why it exists. That is a beginning. Read this book before you vote.

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They got it wrong, as usual

The August 6, 2001, "Bin Laden Determined To Attack In The U.S." memo most noteworthy, the George W. Bush administration ignored over fifty warnings regarding what turned out to be the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Yet as journalist Susan Faludi's book THE TERROR DREAM tells us, instead of holding the Bush White House accountable for its failure to protect the country too many Americans reached for fiction, not facts, letting the corporate media sell them idea of real-life John Wayne characters as an answer, as if one person could ride into town and shape up everything while we cower behind the saloon doors.

Of course, many if not most Americans knew in their hearts that Bush was aware of the 9/11 plan, not bothering to act. But as THE TERROR DREAM recalls, the post-9/11 corporate media babble about the need for men to be manly and for women to get back in the kitchen - no, make that get tied to the railroad tracks by Snidely Whiplash so Dudley Do-Right can rescue them - you can see why the noise machine drowned out clear thinking. With fear and confusion already competing with better judgment after the hijacked planes hit New York City and Washington, D.C., it was no surprise to see people embrace the silly simplicity of the corporate media's anti-female, pro-macho man baloney.

One of THE TERROR DREAM's most impressive passages takes you to the days when men were purportedly as manly as the post-9/11 hyperbole would have them today. Yet as author Faludi reports, even then women did a lot more than some may realize, and certainly more then their men were doing. But American culture and corporate media continue celebrating Davey Crockett more than Hannah Duston, getting it wrong as usual.

Read THE TERROR DREAM.

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The Comfort of Myth

Susan Faludi's detailed evidence of the preference for fantasy over fact - past and present - illuminates the on-going aftermath of 9/11. Myths concocted in the earliest birth pangs of the USA, she shows, persist stubbornly to the present day: the damsel in distress and the male rescuer/protector. It is not hard to extrapolate from Faludi's case to the hidden motives of current US foreign policy.

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