Merchants of Fear
Why They Want Us to be Afraid
by Christopher Catherwood, Joseph A. DiVanna
242 pages· 2008· ISBN 9781599212814
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Argues that fear is a part of American culture that has always been present as a mechanism for government control and intrusion into the private life of its citizens, citing such examples as McCarthyism, Sputnik, the Cold War, and September 11th.
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