{"product_id":"the-end-of-victory-culture-cold-war-america-and-the-disillusioning-of-a-generation-paperback","title":"The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTom Engelhardt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas M. Engelhardt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.04 x 9.14 x 6.27 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777236468000,"sku":"9781558495869","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c55119cb067e344d3897e77e1063b006.webp?v=1780495366","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-end-of-victory-culture-cold-war-america-and-the-disillusioning-of-a-generation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}