The Culture of Fear, book

The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things, seems like an interesting book.
I suspect that fear is a far more important feature of the human psychological landscape than most of us are aware. Perhaps the most important one. And I think that if panic reactions were magically removed from humanity, our quality of life would be dramatically improved.
Of course we don't have a magic button for that, but we can work on facing our fear (rather than our fears, because that implies outside things to be faced), and we can work on realizing that 90% of fear is irrational and harmful.