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The end of victory culture : Cold War America and the disillusioning of a generation / Tom Engelhardt.
Van Pelt Library E169.Z82 E64 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engelhardt, Tom, 1944-
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the Cold War
- Culture, politics, and the cold war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States.
- History.
- Sociology, Military--United States.
- Sociology, Military.
- War and society.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 387 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- 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 Hussein's Iraq; and how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-366) and index.
- ISBN:
- 155849586X
- 9781558495869
- OCLC:
- 166635223
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