Democracy and America's War on Terror

by Robert L. Ivie

Robert Ivie, who has written extensively over the last thirty years on America's rhetorical appetite for war, discusses democracy's centrality to the national identity and how prevailing constructions of democracy constitute a republic of fear in which the threat of foreign and domestic "otherss" chronically exaggerated through rituals of vilification and victimization.

In reassessing the nation's traditional distrust of democracy (the lively...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817353380
• ISBN13: 9780817353384
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"