| The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation Revised Edition Contributor(s): Engelhardt, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 155849586X ISBN-13: 9781558495869 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2007 Annotation: The End of Victory Culture is an autopsy of a once vital American myth: the cherished belief that triumph over a less-than-human enemy was in the American grain, a birthright and a national destiny. This book is a compelling account of how a national narrative of triumph through which Americans bad always sustained themselves as a people underwent a vertiginous decomposition from Hiroshima to Vietnam. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 973.9 |
| Series: Culture, Politics, and the Cold War (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.27" W x 9.14" (1.37 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden, Wanted, Dead or Alive); how his administration brought victory culture roaring back as part of its Global War on Terror and its rush to invade Saddam Husseins's Iraq; and how, from its Mission Accomplished moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land. |