The end of victory culture : cold war America and the disillusioning of a generation
Tom Engelhardt (Author)
"Sets out to trace the vicissitudes of America's self-image since World War ll as they showed up in popular culture: war toys, war comics, war reporting, and war films. It succeeds brilliantly ... Engelhardt's prose is smart and smooth, and his book is social and cultural history of a high order." Boston Globe, from the bookjacket
Print Book, English, 1998
Second paperback edition View all formats and editions
University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1998
History
351 pages ; 24 cm.
9781558491335, 1558491333
37782895
I. WAR STORY: Triumphalist despair
Story time
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass
Premonitions: the Asian death of victory culture
II. CONTAINMENTS (1945-1962): War games
X marks the spot
The enemy disappears
The haunting of childhood
Entering the twilight zone
III. THE ERA OF REVERSALS (1962-1975): The first coming of G.I. Joe
The invisible government
Playing with fire
Into the Charnel House of Language
The president as Mad Mullah
The crossover point
"Something rather dark and bloody"
The war crimes of Daniel Ellsberg
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass (II)
Besieged
Reconstruction
IV. AFTERLIFE (1975-1994)
Originally published: New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1995