Find. I looked at do we get this in times of political hardship or voices with people in the media planting fears or is it grassroots conflict and economic conflicts that bubble up and become widespread panic. At the outset, i was looking to see if there was a clear difference between alarm and panic. Not all political alarm is panic. What was in my head was after 911 we had good reasons to be concerned about security. When a bomb was detonated my parents had concern because we were the only country with this powerful weapon. In 1834, when a convent was burned down that was panic. So how did we get to that point . As an example of the things that go on in the book i wanted to look at the burning of the convent. And one of the first things i didnt expect to was i bumped into at that event. National success contributed to it. Three National Successes contributed to it. The first was we won the revolution. And once that happened there was concern this freedom of religion we established in