{"product_id":"book-b8e3","title":"The Terror Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this most original examination of America's post-9\/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, Faludi unearths a barely acknowledged but bedrock societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions. Why, she asks, did our culture respond to an assault against American global dominance with a frenzied summons to restore \"traditional\" manhood, marriage, and maternity? Why did we react as if the hijackers had targeted not a commercial and military edifice but the family home and nursery? Why did an attack fueled by hatred of Western emancipation lead us to a regressive fixation on Doris Day womanhood and John Wayne masculinity, with trembling \"security moms,\" swaggering presidential gun-slingers, and the \"rescue\" of a female soldier cast as a \"helpless little girl\"?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe answer, Faludi finds, lies in a historical anomaly unique to the American experience: the nation that in recent memory has been least vulnerable to domestic attack was forged in traumatizing assaults by non-white \"barbarians\" on town and village. That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms—as they did on September 11.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant and important, \u003ci\u003eThe Terror Dream\u003c\/i\u003e shows what 9\/11 revealed about us—and offers the opportunity to look at ourselves anew.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49393611145520,"sku":"BDb8e3","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/192360-b8e3-Square.jpg?v=1735352347","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-b8e3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}