Publisher description: In a revealing examination of the images and iconography of war, Social Psychologist Sam Keen interviews journalists, editorial cartoonists, psychologists, and war veterans. They discuss how an almost universal language of stereotypes and prejudices tap into viewer's most visceral emotions. Psychologists Robert Lifton and Steven Kull explain how war and artificial enemies provide people with the moral and mental certainties they crave, giving them a sense of purpose in a sometimes ambiguous world.