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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword)
Tom Engelhardt
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Paperback. Explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden); how his administration brought "victory culture" roaring back as part of its War on Terror; and how, from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land. Series: Culture, Politics & the Cold War. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW3; JMH; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 660.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Culture, Politics & the Cold War
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495869
SKU
V9781558495869
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About Tom Engelhardt
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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