The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Authors Bruce Tucker and Priscilla L. Walton examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 arguing that commentators abandoned complexity, seeking to reduce events to their simplest signification.

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BRUCE TUCKER is a professor of History and Associate Vice-President, Academic at the University of Windsor, Canada. He is co-author with Zane L. Miller of Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth Century Urbanism (1998) and co-editor with Philip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner of Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (2000). He has served on the program committee and the international committee of the American Studies Association and on the international committee of the editorial board of the Journal of American History. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. His reviews and articles on American intellectual and cultural history have appeared in the New England Quarterly, American Literature, Prospects, Canadian Review of American Studies, Appalachian Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, American Studies, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is currently working on a study of the revolutionary tradition in modern American political culture.

PRISCILLA L. WALTON is a professor of English at Carleton University, Canada, and Director of the Carleton Centre for Research in American Studies. She is also editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies, and has published numerous books and articles in the United States and Canada, including Our Cannibals, Ourselves (2004) and co-authored Detective Agency: Women Re-Wrting the Hardboiled Tradition (1999), Border Crossings: Thomas King's Comic Inversions (2003), and others. She was the first Canadian president of the International Narrative Society, President of the Henry James Society, and President and Session Chair of the MLA Division of Literatures Other than British and American. She has also served on the PMLA Advisory Committee, and been a member of the Program Committee of the American Studies Association.

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Preface Heroes, Hype, and History Spinning and Counter-Spinning Jessica Lynch and Lynndie England Corporate Complications Sometimes Paranoia is Just Common Sense: Leaving Behind Da Vinci A Movie and a Funeral: Michael Moore and Ronald Reagan circa 2004 Conclusion: Fast Forward List of Works Cited Index