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Homeland
The War on Terror in American Life
Richard Beck
2024
Crown Publishing Group
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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.
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Cora Currier
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New York Review of Books
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October 16, 2025
Book Review
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."
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Jackson Lears
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London Review of Books
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July 24, 2025
Book Review
Grave New World
Richard Beck charts how 9/11 shapes the way we live now.
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David Klion
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Bookforum
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October 29, 2024
Book Review
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.
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Gal Beckerman
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The Atlantic
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September 10, 2024
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.
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Ed Burmila
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The New Republic
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September 9, 2024