How the Sept. 11 attacks remade life in America leading to the worst president
How the Sept. 11 attacks remade life in America SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 11:49 AM ET HEARD ON FRESH AIR Tonya Mosley 38-Minute Listen TRANSCRIPT In Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life, Richard Beck links the attacks to an expansion of government surveillance, increased hate crimes against Muslim Americans and the rise of Donald Trump. Sponsor Message Transcript TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. Twenty-five years ago this week, we were left trying to understand what September 11 would mean for our lives. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial planes, flew two into the World Trade Center in New York and one into the Pentagon, while the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The attack brought down the Twin Towers and killed almost 3,000 people. In the weeks that followed, President George W. Bush urged us to go back to work, get on planes, go shopping, take our families to Disney World. The message was that even as the nation went to war, life at h...
