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John Frankenheimerʹs “War on Terror”
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John Frankenheimerʹs “War on Terror”

COREY K. Creekmur
A Little Solitaire, pp.103-116
Rutgers University Press
08/11/2011
DOI: 10.36019/9780813550985-009

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Abstract

The violent, unanticipated division of contemporary American history into pre- and post-9/11 has depicted the latter as a era of incomplete mourning and inadequate memorialization, with the advantage of hindsight offering small comfort for the lack of foresight that, had it been available and exercised, may have prevented or at least better prepared Americans for the traumatic assaults that became the watershed event of our time (see Simpson; Butler; Engle). However, our admission that we “didn’t see it coming” has been consistently challenged by the common claim, made immediately following the attacks and persistently thereafter, that the massive destruction on
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