Description: The Rhetorical Invention of America's National Security State uses a broad range of materials, including technical, journalistic, entertainment, academic, and legal sources to explore the role of rhetoric in the expansion and maintenance of America's national security state. I...
Review Quotes: While a number of recent books have focused on the rhetorics and technologies of homeland security, few have so skillfully shown that the "national security state" is not just the work of politicians and intelligence agencies--it has also relied on the complicity of pundits, scientific experts, hackers, academics, military bureaucrats, and everyday citizens. This valuable book provides an insightful, blow-by-blow account of how the Global War on Terror has crept into the American homeland.