"Evans uses an exhaustive, creative, and unusual combination of sources in her work... It's a very interesting read,... quite effective, and written in a compelling fashion."—Karen Kedrowski, author of Media Entrepreneurs and the Media Enterprise in the U.S. Congress
"Evans has written perhaps the most in-depth and best-documented study of how the U.S. Congress was impacted by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the shootings of two Capitol Police officers three years earlier...she has written a fine documentary of the subject that will serve researchers and graduate students well, along with undergraduates studying the practical effects of terrorism on U.S. political institutions."—Choice
"Evans has written perhaps the most in-depth and best documented study how the US Congress was impacted by the terrorist attacks on September 11,2001, adn the shooting of two Capitol Police officers three years earlier."—Social & Behavioral Sciences
"Evans argues that looking beyond the real and significant institutional changes to the internal functioning of Congress we see a simultaneous change in the symbolic functioning of our representative institutions as the result of the security and policy changes spurred by 9/11."—APSA Legislative Studies Section Newsletter