%0 Book %A Silberstein, Sandra, 1948- %I Routledge %D 2002 %C New York %G English %@ 0415290473 (hbk.) %T War of words : Language, politics and 9/11 %X At first there were no words to describe September 11, only a national hush that expressed the sudden absence of so many lives. Then the floodgates opened: eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, bitter denunciations, tributes to the fallen heroes, patriotic exhortations, eulogies, spin. Tracing the subtle linguistic battles fought since then, War of Words explores how 9/11 was remanufactured on screen and in print - and the American national identity was remade in the process.--BOOK JACKET.