American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why

Stein, Mark

ISBN 10: 1137279028 / ISBN 13: 9781137279026

Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 2014

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In American Panic , New York Times bestselling author Mark Stein traces the history and consequences of American political panics through the years.

Virtually every American, on one level or another, falls victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda that accompanies political panic, regardless of their own personal affiliations. By highlighting the similarities between American political panics from the Salem witch hunt to present-day vehemence over issues such as Latino immigration, gay marriage, and the construction of mosques, Stein closely examines just what it is that causes us as a nation to overreact in the face of widespread and potentially profound change.

This book also devotes chapters to African Americans, Native Americans, Catholics, Mormons, Jews, Chinese and Japanese peoples, Communists, Capitalists, women, and a highly turbulent but largely forgotten panic over Freemasons. Striking similarities in these diverse episodes are revealed in primary documents Stein has unearthed, in which statements from the past could easily be mistaken for statements today. As these similarities come to light, Stein reveals why some people become panicked over particular issues when others do not.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Mark Stein is the author of How the States Got Their Shapes , a New York Times bestseller that became the basis of the History Channel series of the same name, in which he frequently appears. He is also the author of How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines. He lives in Washington, DC, where he has taught at the Catholic University of America and American University.

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Titel: American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us ...
Verlag: St. Martin's Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good