| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word. By Jeffory A. Clymer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2792-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5460-3.)

In the first sentence of his epilogue, Jeffory A. Clymer says that in this book he argues

that a particular way of imagining certain acts of violence as "terrorism" emerged in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, and that the imaginative dimensions of terrorism in this period, as well as its closely related material history, were intimately connected to the way industrial capitalism evolved and was narrated for Americans. (p. 211)

This sentence is indeed an excellent microcosm of this book, and especially what is wrong with it: Clymer has great difficulty in writing simply and clearly, and, as a result, no matter how many times his book (or this sentence) is read, it is difficult to determine what he is trying to say (and, sometimes, literally what he is talking about).

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