Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

by Elaine Tyler May

Book Overview

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time).
For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465055923
• ISBN13: 9780465055920
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"