Why read In the Name of Terrorism?

Book cover of In the Name of Terrorism: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era

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Traces the shifts in presidential discourse on terrorism since World War II.

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Randall Fowler

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While not a book about the Middle East per se, Winkler’s In the Name of Terrorism traces the rise of terrorism as a concern in U.S. politics and charts the narratives, frames, metaphors, and rhetoric used by presidents to make sense of terrorism to the American people. Focusing specifically on the evolution of “terrorism” as a concept in the leadup to the 9/11 attacks, this book provides vital background for those who wish to understand, as George W. Bush put it, why “they” hate “us.” A wide-ranging volume that effectively bridges the Cold War and the War on Terror, readers…

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