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The End of Victory Culture
Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
A compelling account of the demise of America’s “victory culture,” from Hiroshima to the Gulf War
"Sets out to trace the vicissitudes of America's self-image since
World War II 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
"Engelhardt is absorbing and provocative. . . . Everything he writes
is of a satisfyingly congruent piece."
New York Times
"This brilliant and gripping cultural history of Cold War America
offers deeply felt personal perspectives disciplined by a profound knowledge
of American history. I can't imagine a better way to introduce today's students
to the popular culture of an era when fear of the bomb and the alien 'other'
shaped every aspect of American life."
Paul Boyer, author of By the Bomb's Early Light
"America Victorious has been our country's postulate since its birth.
Tom Engelhardt, with a burning clarity, recounts the end of this fantasy,
from the split atom to Vietnam. . . . As powerful as a Joe Louis jab to
the solar plexus."
Studs Terkel, author of The Good War
"A brilliant meditation on the past half-century of the American national
story. . . . Its account of the disintegration of a confident post—World
War II national identity is a stunning achievement."
Marilyn Young, author of The Vietnam War
"An extraordinarily original work that places postwar American history
in an entirely new perspective."
John Dower, author of War without Mercy
"In this tour de force, Tom Engelhardt tracks the American 'war story'
along its declining arc from the Indian conquests to the 'total television'
of the Gulf War. . . . Full of brilliancies, this is one of those rare books
that can change the way we see."
Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties
Tom Engelhardt is consulting editor at Metropolitan Books and coeditor of History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past.
American Studies / Popular Culture
360 pp.
LC 97-32342
$24.95s paper, ISBN 1-55849-133-3
1998
A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
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