End of Victory Culture Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

Name: End of Victory Culture Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
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ISBN: 9781558495869

ISBN-10: 155849586X

ISBN-13: 9781558495869

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Tom Engelhardt, Thomas M. Engelhardt, Thomas M. Engelhardt

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An "absorbing and provocative" ( "New York Times" ) autopsy of a once-vital all-American myth: the cherished belief that elimination of a less-than human enemy was necessary to achieve our national destiny."An extraordinarily original work that places postwar American history in an entirely new perspective. Anyone who wishes to introduce students to post-1945 American culture should assign this wonderful book."--John Dower, MIT, author of "War Without Mercy" "Absorbing and provocative." "--New York Times" "Full of brilliancies, this "tour de force" is one of those rare books that can change the way we see."--Todd Gitlin, author of "The Sixties" "A perfect book to use in twentieth-century…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 7/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.364

War story
Triumphalist despair	p. 3
Story time	p. 16
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass	p. 37
Premonitions : the Asian death of victory culture	p. 54
Containments (1945-1962)
War games	p. 69
X marks the spot	p. 90
The enemy disappears	p. 113
The haunting of childhood	p. 133
Entering the Twilight Zone	p. 155
The era of reversals (1962-1975)
The first comng of G.I. Joe	p. 175
The invisible government	p. 181
Playing with fire	p. 187
Into the charnel house of language	p. 193
The president as mad mullah	p. 202
The crossover point	p. 204
"Something rather dark and bloody"	p. 215
The war crimes of Daniel Ellsberg	p. 227
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass (II)	p. 234
Besieged	p. 241
Reconstruction	p. 254
Afterlife (1975-1994)
Victory culture, the sequel
Victory culture, the sequel : crashing and burning in Iraq	p. 305
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