## Metadata * Author: [[Christopher Clark]] * ASIN: B008B1BL4E * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008B1BL4E ## Highlights The attack on the World Trade Center in September 2001 exemplified the way in which a single, symbolic event – however deeply it may be enmeshed in larger historical processes – can change politics irrevocably, rendering old options obsolete and endowing new ones with an unforeseen urgency. — location: [358](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=358) ^ref-21998 --- far from being inevitable, this war was in fact ‘improbable’ – at least until it actually happened. — location: [403](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=403) ^ref-64319 --- extremists were always at a rhetorical advantage, since it was they who set the terms of the debate. — location: [1102](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=1102) ^ref-32701 --- The targeting of the archduke thus exemplified one abiding strand in the logic of terrorist movements, namely that reformers and moderates are more to be feared than outright enemies and hardliners. — location: [1353](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=1353) ^ref-64990 --- Joseph Roth’s masterpiece The Radetzky March, — location: [1835](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=1835) ^ref-55262 --- resistance of the peasantry to innovation than with Austrian negligence. — location: [1867](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=1867) ^ref-38030 --- crises of decay.’ — location: [1911](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=1911) ^ref-30164 --- primed to believe what they feared to find. — location: [2145](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=2145) ^ref-17078 --- American plans to seize Morocco32). — location: [2967](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B008B1BL4E&location=2967) ^ref-38299 ---