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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 |
Pubblicazione: | Lexington, Ky., : University Press of Kentucky, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 327.73/009/0511 |
Soggetto topico: | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 |
Democracy - United States | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations 2001-2009 |
United States Politics and government 2001-2009 | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Blood in the sand |
ISBN: | 1-283-23280-4 |
9786613232809 | |
0-8131-7168-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910777534503321 |
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