{"product_id":"civic-war-and-the-corruption-peter-alexander-meyers-9780226522081","title":"Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen","description":"In this unique book, Peter Alexander Meyers leads us through the social processes by which shock incites terror, terror invites war, war invokes emergency, and emergency supports unchecked power. He then reveals how the domestic political culture created by the Cold War has driven these developments forward since 9\/11, contending that our failure to acknowledge that \u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e Cold War continues today is precisely what makes it so dangerous. With eloquence and urgency Meyers argues that the mantra of our time--\"everything changed on 9\/11!\"--is false and pernicious. By contrast, \u003ci\u003eCivic War and the Corruption of the Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e provides a novel account of long-term transformations in the citizen's experience of war, the constitution of political powers, and public uses of communication, and from that firm historical basis explains how a convergence of these social facts became the pretext for unprecedented opportunism and irresponsibility after 9\/11. Where others have observed that our rights are under attack, Meyers digs deeper and finds that today \"government by the people\" itself is at risk. Sparkling with historical and philosophical insight, this is a dramatic diagnosis of the American political scene that at once makes clear the new position of the citizen and the necessity for active citizenship if democracy is to endure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Alexander Meyers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226522083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226522081\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/23\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2009","brand":"Peter Alexander Meyers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086415900927,"sku":"9780226522081","price":41.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1754a098-b10e-4a49-bc67-0d5320a4a6f8.jpg?v=1769094547","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/civic-war-and-the-corruption-peter-alexander-meyers-9780226522081","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}