Holy War
Subtitle: Cowboys, Indians, And 9/11s
Publisher: University of Regina; University of Regina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780889774148
Subjects: War and society; Imperialism; Popular culture; War, religious aspects; September 11 terrorist attacks, 2001
Description: "Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack was not: it was, in fact, as old as the Republic itself. Beginning with the Mexican-American War and ending with the invasion of Iraq, Holy War probes presidential speeches, news reports, editorial cartoons, television programs, and films to uncover how the United States reverts back to its creation mythology of "fighting Indians" to justify centuries of American imperialism."--