{"product_id":"american-war","title":"American War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEl Akkad is an Egyptian-Canadian journalist who covered Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, the Kandahar massacre, and the Ferguson unrest before writing \u003cem\u003eAmerican War\u003c\/em\u003e — a second American Civil War set in the 2070s in which the post-9\/11 American foreign policy playbook (surveillance, detention, suicide bombers, proxy conflicts, civilian casualties rationalized as acceptable losses) is applied to American soil. The protagonist is a Southern refugee. El Akkad's reporting career becomes the novel's argument: the things America does abroad are not abstract. This is what they look like from inside. Read it and ask what we've been manufacturing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punk and Pedagogy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179989024966,"sku":null,"price":17.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/9066\/8742\/files\/american-war.webp?v=1789168832","url":"https:\/\/punkandpedagogy.com\/products\/american-war","provider":"Punk and Pedagogy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}