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Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy  Cover Image Book Book

Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy / Elaine Tyler May.

May, Elaine Tyler, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780465055920
  • Physical Description: vii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-236) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: The bunker mentality -- Gimme shelter : security in the Atomic Age -- The color of danger : from red to black -- Vigilante virtue : fantasy, reality, and the law -- Women : victims or villains? -- Locked-up America : self-incarceration and the illusion of security -- Epilogue: Back to the future : the twenty-first century.
Subject: Crime > United States > History > 21st century.
Violence > United States > History > 21st century.
Public safety > Social aspects > United States > History > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Civilization > 21st century.
Civilization.
Crime.
Social conditions.
Violence.
United States.
Gewalt
Innere Sicherheit
Verbrechen
Bürger
Waffenbesitz
USA
Criminalité > États-Unis > 21e siècle.
Violence > États-Unis > 21e siècle.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 21e siècle.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
United States > Civilization > 21st century.
Genre: Minnesota author.
History.

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East Grand Forks Campbell Library 364.109 MAY (Text) 517700 Non-Fiction Available -


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