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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823362903321

Autore

Bronner Stephen Eric <1949->

Titolo

Blood in the sand [[electronic resource] ] : imperial fantasies, right-wing ambitions, and the erosion of American democracy / / Stephen Eric Bronner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2005

ISBN

1-283-23280-4

9786613232809

0-8131-7168-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

327.73/009/0511

Soggetti

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Democracy - United States

United States Foreign relations 2001-2009

United States Politics and government 2001-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Gandhi's Voice; 2. Us and Them; 3. Baghdad Memories; 4. American Landscape; 5. States of Despair; 6. Anatomy of a Disaster; 7. Dub'ya's Fellow Travelers; 8. Constructing Neoconservatism; 9. It Happened Here; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Blood in the Sand is Stephen Eric Bronner's powerful critique of the current state of American foreign and domestic policy, ranging from the government's initial response to 9/11 and the assault on Afghanistan through the Iraqi War and the ramifications of the Israeli--Palestinian conflict. Bronner, who just months before the war began spent time in Iraq as part of a peace delegation, examines the state of twenty-first century America, a nation in which security against future terrorist attacks has become an obsession, ""moral values"" have turned into a slogan, and belief in the right to e