The Age of Terror
America and the World After September 11
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 3. January 2002
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-465-08356-5 (ISBN)
Description
}Momentous events have a way of connecting individuals both to history and to one another. So it was on September 11. Even before more than 4000 people died in less than two hours, there were farewell messages from the sky. In their last minutes, doomed passengers used cell phones to reach loved ones. A short time later, office workers trapped high in the burning towers called spouses, children, parents. Never had so many had the means to say good-bye. During the hours afterward, the survivors scrambled to make contact with family and friends. "Are you all right?" they asked. As the enormity of it all began to sink in, the question hanging in the air was, Were we all right? Since September 11, many have noted a humbling irony: the more time we'd spent in the old world and the better we thought we understood its organizing principles, the less ready we were for the new one. Suddenly, familiar terms and concepts were inadequate , starting with the word terrorism itself. The dictionary defines it as violence, particularly against civilians, carried out for a political purpose. September 11 certainly qualified.
But American's earlier encounters with terrorism neither anticipated nor encopmassed this new manifestation. Commentators instantly evoked Pearl Harbor, that other bolt-from-the-blue raid, sixty years before, as the closest thing to a precedent. But there really was none. This was something new under the sun. }
But American's earlier encounters with terrorism neither anticipated nor encopmassed this new manifestation. Commentators instantly evoked Pearl Harbor, that other bolt-from-the-blue raid, sixty years before, as the closest thing to a precedent. But there really was none. This was something new under the sun. }
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-465-08356-5 (9780465083565)
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Content
And Now This: Lessons from the Old Era for the New One (John Lewis Gaddis); Empowered Through Violence: The Reinventing of Islamic Extremism (Abbas Amanat); Maintaining American Power: From Injury to Recovery (Paul Kennedy); The Herculean Task: The Myth and Reality of Arab Terrorism (Charles Hill); Clashing Civilizations or Mad Mullahs: The United States Between Informal and Formal Empire (Niall Ferguson); Preserving American Values: The Challenge at Home and Abroad (Harold Hongju Koh); Rethinking the Unthinkable: New Priorities for New National Security (Paul Bracken); The Challenge to Science: How to Mobilize American Ingenuity (Maxine Singer).