{"product_id":"2940169111477","title":"The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9\/11 America","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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy, 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\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150131609840,"sku":"2940169111477","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169111477_p0.jpg?v=1763673093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169111477","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}