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Homeland

The War on Terror in American Life
  • Richard Beck
2024
Crown Publishing Group

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Featured Excerpts

  • Kitchen workers moving a paper-mache Statue of Liberty in 2009 Kabul, Afghanistan.
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    Pervasive Impunity

    How four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.
    by Cora Currier via New York Review of Books on October 16, 2025
  • World Trade Center towers burning on 9/11.
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    The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

    A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."
    by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025
  • View from the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001.
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    Grave New World

    Richard Beck charts how 9/11 shapes the way we live now.
    by David Klion via Bookforum on October 29, 2024
  • Twin towers missing; twin towers visible with surroundings missing.
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    How the War on Terror Warped the American Left

    A new book on how 9/11 altered the national psyche also demonstrates how it stunted progressive politics.
    by Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic on September 10, 2024
  • Reflections in a store window of people watching the 9/11 attack on television.
    Book Review

    The World That September 11 Made

    Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.
    by Ed Burmila via The New Republic on September 9, 2024
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