| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

The Age of Terror: America and the World after September 11. Ed. by Strobe Talbott and Nayan Chanda. (New York: Basic Books, 2001. xxiv, 232 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-465-08356-0.)

Among the many books about September 11, 2001 (9/11), this volume is a surprising jewel: Although it was published just a few months after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the authors managed to put the cataclysmic events into illuminating historical and political contexts. Each of the eight chapters, written by four historians, a political scientist, a legal scholar, a molecular biologist, and a career diplomat (six of them from Yale University), provide critical analyses of the domestic and international developments and events that are as helpful in explaining 9/11 today (and probably will be in the future) as they were in the weeks following the attacks. Whether one agrees or disagrees with the policy prescriptions that are put forth in each chapter, all of the ideas continue to be valuable in a serious discourse about American post-9/11 policies.

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