Publication

2004 - New Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

41,250 words, Guess

Page Count

165 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing419381

Classifications

  • DDC973.931
  • LCCE902 .P57 2004

Description

"In The War at Home, Frances Fox Piven dissects the way war has propped up America's rulers - at home. She examines how the war on terror initially served to buttress George W. Bush's political base - resolving, at least temporarily, political tensions between factions on the right, and shoring up voter support for a politically weak president. And she analyzes the manner in which the administration used the patriotic rush of war to further its regressive social and economic agendas, enacting a predatory program that extracted wealth not, in the classic imperial sense, from foreign peoples, but rather from middle- and low-income Americans."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • The war at home: the domestic costs of Bush's militarismNew Press2004-01-01

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