The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) - Softcover

Engelhardt, Tom

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9781558491335: The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)

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ISBN 10: 1558491333 ISBN 13: 9781558491335

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1998

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A compelling account of the demise of America's "victory culture", from Hiroshima to the Gulf War. "America Victorious has been our country's postulate since its birth. Tom Engelhardt, with a burning clarity, recounts the end of this fantasy, from the split atom to Vietnam. . . . As powerful as a Joe Louis jab to the solar plexus".--Studs Turkel, author of "The Good War".

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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.

About the Author:

Tom Engelhardt, for fifteen years a senior editor at Pantheon, is now consulting editor at Metropolitan Books, a Fellow of the Nation Institute, and a Teaching Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He is a regular book reviewer and essayist and is also creator and editor of the website Tomdispatch.com.

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