Homeland

Homeland is an expansive tome about how Americans became the anxious, hateful and paranoid citizens of a permanent security state. It's impossible not to admire the nerve and scope of Beck's treatise * Washington Post * We are living in a golden age of Big Books, with doorstop-size nonfiction that is as captivating as it is meticulous. Homeland throws its hat into this ring and holds its own among the very best recent examples of the genre. -- Ed Burmila * New Republic * Describes, with a beguiling mix of intellectual precision and passion, and from a novel perspective, the sinister mutations in American life induced by the war on terror. Everyone interested in the fate of democracy, or simply how violence abroad comes home, should read it -- Pankaj Mishra, author of <i>Run and Hide</i> An immersive plunge into the icy tub of twenty-first-century American history as we've lived it so far. Beck puts the reader so deep in the action that you can hear the ""U-S-A!"" chants. Chilling. -- Malcolm Harris, bestselling author of <i>Palo Alto</i> On 9/11, the United States lost its mind, succumbing to a protracted bout of hubris, ineptitude, and heedless violence. Today, Americans are inclined to expunge from memory the disasters that ensued. Richard Beck refuses to forget. In this eloquent and insightful account, he tallies up the perverse consequences of our own folly. An extraordinary achievement -- Andrew Bacewich, author of <i>America’s War for the Greater Middle East</i> In 500 ambitious pages of pop culture, urban design, automotive trends, surveillance metadata and Batman, Beck constructs a sprawling portrait of why 9/11 is still at the heart of American life. Homeland is an expansive tome about how Americans became the anxious, hateful and paranoid citizens of a permanent security state. It's impossible not to admire the nerve and scope of Beck's treatise. -- Bilal Qureshi * Washington Post * A rich and memorable new history. -- David Wallace-Wells * New York Times *