The end of victory culture : Cold War America and the disillusioning of a generation /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Engelhardt, Tom, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.
Edition:Revised and expanded paperback edition.
Series:Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
Subjects:
Since 1900
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Sociology, Military > United States.
War and society.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Sociologie militaire > États-Unis.
Guerre et société.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Sociology, Military.
United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970.
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1945-1970.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1971-
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • War story. Triumphalist despair
  • Story time
  • Ambush at kamikaze pass
  • Premonitions : the Asian death of victory culture
  • Containments (1945-1962). War games
  • X marks the spot
  • The enemy disappears
  • The haunting of childhood
  • Entering the twilight zone
  • The era of reversals. 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
  • Afterlife
  • Victory culture, the sequel. Victory culture, the sequel : crashing and burning in Iraq.

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