My Holy War Dispatches from the Home Front

"Today, once-ordinary occurrences - a ship entering a harbor, a low-flying jetliner - have taken on a sinister cast. Yet, as the creeping intrusions of the "war on terror" alter the texture of daily life, Jonathan Raban points out that homeland security remains a bemusing mixture of the politically opportunistic, the theatrical, and the potentially effective. Writing from a city vulnerable to terrorism yet suspicious of how it is being protected, he brings wit, skepticism, and mordant observation to bear on all that we are now being told to consider normal as America proceeds on its vengeful warpath."--BOOK JACKET.