{"id":1420,"date":"2009-03-04T12:29:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/03\/blood-and-rage-from-harper\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:31:12","slug":"blood-and-rage-from-harper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/04\/blood-and-rage-from-harper\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOOD and RAGE from Harper"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Observer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Book Review\u00a0By\u00a0Jonathan Liu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism<\/strong>
\nBy Michael Burleigh
\nHarper, 577 pages, $29.99<\/em><\/p>\n

Nearly a decade has passed since this country declared war on terror, and still, I\u2019m afraid to report, the definitive history of modern terrorism remains to be written.<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not to say it doesn\u2019t\u00a0exist<\/em>. Whatever consolation it provides Michael Burleigh\u2014or his American fans, who\u2019ve waited over a year for the British historian\u2019s latest to make it to our shores\u2014the failures of\u00a0Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism<\/em>\u00a0are sins less of omission than questionable inclusion. If you could scrub the grime of sweat and snark off its pages, all 577 of them, you\u2019d uncover a survey, perhaps a tenth shorter, of impressive scope and verve. Such an abridgement would demonstrate that 25 years in print, on television and behind lecterns have made Mr. Burleigh, above all else, a craftsman. It would show a master weaver at his hand loom, crossing disparate threads of fact and argument (the lack of original research and reliance on secondary sources become moot here) to form a single intricate fabric stretched across the long 20th century, from the discovery of \u201cdynamite terrorism\u201d among Irish-nationalist \u201cFenians\u201d in the 1880s to the internecine rivalries besetting today\u2019s various extant Al Qaedas.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at observer.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Observer Book Review\u00a0By\u00a0Jonathan Liu Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism By Michael Burleigh Harper, 577 pages, $29.99 Nearly a decade has passed since this country declared war on terror, and still, I\u2019m afraid to report, the definitive history of modern terrorism remains to be written. \u00a0 But that\u2019s not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}