The Terror Dream
Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America

Examining America's post-9/11 culture, the author looks at the psychological response to the attacks on that terrible day. Turning her acute observational powers on the media, popular culture, and political life, she unearths a societal drama shot through with baffling contradictions.

That humiliation lies concealed under a myth of cowboy bluster and feminine frailty, which is reanimated whenever threat and shame looms."The Terror Dream" is a brilliant and important new look at what 9/11 revealed about America.