The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

The book was called a "tendentious self-important sloppily reasoned work that gives feminism a bad name" by the New York Times principal book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. She lives with fellow author Russ Rymer. She graduated from Harvard University in 1981 where Susan Faludi wrote for The Harvard Crimson and became a journalist writing for The New York Times Miami Herald Atlanta Journal Constitution San Jose Mercury News and The Wall Street Journal among other publications.

Faludi (born (1959-04-18)April 18 1959) is an American feminist journalist and author. a report that the Pulitzer Prize committee commended for depicting the "human costs of high finance". She won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1991 for a report on the leveraged buyout of Safeway Stores Inc.