{"product_id":"divided-by-terror-american-patriotism-after-911-9781469662619","title":"Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9\/11","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmericans responded to the deadly terrorist attacks on September 11  2001  with an outpouring of patriotism  though all were not united in their expression. A war-based patriotism inspired millions of Americans to wave the flag and support a brutal War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq  while many other Americans demanded an empathic patriotism that would bear witness to the death and suffering surrounding the attack. Twenty years later  the war still simmers  and both forms of patriotism continue to shape historical understandings of 9\/11s legacy and the political life of the nation.  John Bodnars compelling history shifts the focus on Americas War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict  revealing how fierce debates over the war are inseparable from debates about the meaning of patriotism itself. Bodnar probes how honor  brutality  trauma  and suffering have become highly contested in commemorations  congressional correspondence  films  soldier memoirs  and works of art. He concludes that Americans continue to be deeply divided over the War on Terror and how to define the terms of their allegiance  a fissure that has deepened as American politics has become dangerously polarized over the first two decades of this new century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665876410421,"sku":"ByrdShop_1469662612","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781469662619.jpg?v=1782411882","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/divided-by-terror-american-patriotism-after-911-9781469662619","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}