The "War on Terror" Narrative provides a longitudinal and holistic study of the formation, circulation, and contestation of the Bush administration's narrative about the "war on terror."

• 1.: . Introduction


• 2.: The Characterization of 9/11 and America's Response to Terrorism


• 3.: The Narrative's Part-Whole Textual Interdependence


• 4.: The Construction of Al Qaeda and Iraq as Linked Antagonists


• 5.: Intertextual Series: Reproduction and Resistance in the Media


• 6.: . Talking Politics: The Narrative's Reception among College Students


• 7.: . Whose Vietnam?: Discursive Competition over the Vietnam Analogy


• 8.: Conclusion


• Appendix A. Corpus of Presidential Speeches


• Appendix B. Transcription Conventions for Presidential Speeches


• Appendix C. Transcription Conventions for Focus Group Interviews


• Media Discourse Data


• References


• Index

Adam Hodges is Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University.