The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things by Barry Glassner -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction INTRODUCTION: WHY AMERICANS FEAR THE WRONG THINGS I - DUBIOUS DANGERS ON ROADWAYS AND CAMPUSES

Scenarios Substitute for Facts Bad People Substitute for Bad Policies The Power of Calling Something “P.C.” Smoke Trumps Fire Success Doesn’t Come Cheap One Scare Supports Another

2 - CRIME IN THE NEWS

Oops, Wrong Story Oops, Wrong Crisis Unhappy Halloween Kiddie Porn and Cyberpredators Raw Numbers and Pedophile Priests Strange and Sinister Men Stealth Weapons Blame It on the Tube True Causation Crimes Nouveaux: Granny Dumping

3 - YOUTH AT RISK

Teen Gamblers Cybersmut Missing Children Making Money Making Scary Kids Stupid Policy Tricks Is Society Sick? Are Children Sick? Bad to the Bone: Crack Babies

4 - MONSTER MOMS

Now You See It, Now You Don’t America’s Worst Social Problem Bearers of Illegitimate Children Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain Wicked Witches The Woman Next Door She Beats Her Old Man Too

5 - BLACK MEN

Of Dogs and Men The Nation’s Foremost Anti-Semites Even the Best and Brightest Are Bigots Makers of the Nation’s Most Hazardous Music Just a Thug

6 - “SMACK IS BACK”

A White House Tradition Drugs to Ease Collective Guilt Busting Boomers’ Chops This Is the Media on Drugs The Return of Heroin Good Numbers Gone Bad Poster Girl for the Drug Crisis The Roofie Myth Mickey Finn to the Rescue

7 - METAPHORIC ILLNESSES

Battle Fatigue All for What? Circuitous Critique Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Hearing Voices Cashing In Bizarre Bedfellows A Shot at Sanity Keeping Doubt Alive

8 - PLANE WRECKS

1994: BEWARE USAir! STAY CLEAR OF SMALL PLANES! 1995: CAUTION! UNSAFE SAFETY AGENCY 1995-1996:WARNING! BOGUS PARTS 1996: UH-OH! DISCOUNT TICKETS Selling the Latest Air Scare Say Something Often Enough ... Neglect Something Long Enough ... Why Aviation?

9 - FINAL THOUGHTS 10 - NEW FEARS FOR A NEW CENTURY

Plane Wrecks and Road Rage E-Fear Redux Missing Children, Missing Dollars More Risky Business: Teens Gone Wild Still Iffy After All These Years The March of Crimes 9/11 All the Time The Bush Administration’s Fear Machine Enter Barack Obama

NOTES READER DISCUSSION GUIDE INDEX Copyright Page