Shocked and Awed: A Dictionary of the War on Terror

by Fred Halliday

Part reference, part polemic, part compelling snapshot of our times, Shocked and Awed is a bristling arsenal of potent weapons: words. Fred Halliday's unorthodox dictionary defines hundreds of words and phrases used about 9/11, the wars and other events that have followed it, and ongoing issues linked to those events. He shows how the War on Terror, itself a fascinating linguistic construct, has brought us not just new words, such as "Gitmo,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520268709
• ISBN13: 9780520268708
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"