Fortress America the shambling guides including the angst of being

including the angst of being human

and operated as a business -- all because of the entrepreneurial mind of the greatest American businessman of any generation: George Washington

Boady begins to see the stark lines of race and class that both bind and divide this small town -- and he will be forced to choose sides

an AIDS diagnosis was a death sentence

and while home for the summer in Galloway he struggles with the pressing issues of his day -- the economic crisis of the previous decade and what appears to be the impending entrance of the United States into the Second World War

Fortress America the shambling guides including the angst of beingAn award winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America