The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
- ISBN-10
- 155849586X
- ISBN-13
- 9781558495869
- Category
- Popular culture
- Pages
- 387
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Univ of Massachusetts Press
- Author
- Tom Engelhardt
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 Hussein's Iraq; and how, from its Mission Accomplished moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.
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