Holy War: Cowboys, Indians, and 9/11s [Paperback]

Noam Chomsky and George W. Bush seldom agree, but they both argued that 9/11 stood alone in American history. Although the use of airplanes as weapons of mass destruction was new, Mark Anderson maintains that the response to the attack was not: it was, in fact, as old as the Republic itself.

Beginning with the Mexican-American War and ending with the invasion of Iraq, Holy War probes presidential speeches, news reports, editorial cartoons, television programs, and films to uncover how the United States reverts back to its creation mythology of fighting Indians to justify centuries of American imperialism.

In Holy War,?Mark Anderson shows how the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks is part of a long standing pattern that uses images of the outsider to unite and revitalize the American nation.

Mark Cronlund Andersonis an award-winning author of five books, including Seeing Redand Pancho Villa's Revolution by Headlines.

A tour de force. Boyd Cothran, author of Remembering the Modoc War Original and innovative.