The war at home
Subtitle: the domestic costs of Bush's militarism
By: Frances Fox Piven.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Bush, George W. 1946-; Militarism -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-; Terrorism -- Government policy -- United States; United States. -- Politics and government -- 2001-
Description: "In The War at Home, Frances Fox Piven dissects the way war has propped up America's rulers - at home. She examines how the war on terror initially served to buttress George W. Bush's political base - resolving, at least temporarily, political tensions between factions on the right, and shoring up voter support for a politically weak president. And she analyzes the manner in which the administration used the patriotic rush of war to further its regressive social and economic agendas, enacting a predatory program that extracted wealth not, in the classic imperial sense, from foreign peoples, but rather from middle- and low-income Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-165).