Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Wraps. very good. 113 pages. Wraps, notes, slight wear and soiling to covers. Signed by the author. A New Democracy Forum on Citizenship, National Security and 9/11. Through a minute-by-minute analysis of the phone calls, official reports, responses, and reported actions of passengers on two hijacked flights, United Airlines 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania) and American Airlines 77(which crashed into the Pentagon), Elaine Scarry offers a dramatic retelling of their fate and some startling conclusions. Leading off a provocative debate, she asks if the difficulty we had as a country in defending ourselves on September 11 suggests serious flaws in our national security. She also asks whether our authoritarian conception of national defense diminishes our capacity to protect ourselves. Responding to her argument are nine prominent thinkers and writers from across the political spectrum, including Fichard Falk, Ellen Willis, Admiral Eurgene Carroll, and Antonia Chayes.

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Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, is the author of The Body in Pain, On Beauty and Being Just, Dreaming by the Book, and Resisting Representation.

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Bookseller: Ground Zero Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45662
Title: Who Defended the Country
Author: Scarry, Elaine
Format/Binding: Wraps
Book Condition: Used - very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition. First Printing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 080700457X
ISBN 13: 9780807004579
Publisher: Beacon Press
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: Civil Liberties, Richard Falk, Paul Kahn, Stephen Walt, Charles Knight, Democracy, Eugene Carroll, Randall Forsberg, Signed

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