Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy

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Author:

May, Elaine Tyler, author.

Publication Date as Range:

2017

ISBN:

9780465055920

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

vii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

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.

Abstract:

An award-winning historian untangles the roots of America’s culture of fear, and argues that it imperils our democracy.-- Publisher's description.

Subject Term:

Crime -- United States -- History -- 21st century.

Violence -- United States -- History -- 21st century.

Public safety -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.

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Searching... Oldsmar Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction Collection	Book	364.10973 MAY	Searching... Unknown
Searching... St Pete Beach Public Library	Adult Non-Fiction Collection	Book	364.109 MAY	Searching... Unknown

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