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

Informationen zum Autor TOM 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. Klappentext In 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 Hussein's Iraq; and how! from its "Mission Accomplished" moment on! its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land. Zusammenfassung Explores how! in the aftermath of September 11! 2001! the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden); how his administration brought ""victory culture"" roaring back as part of its War on Terror; and how! from its ""Mission Accomplished"" moment on! its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tom Engelhardt
• Editore: University of Massachusetts
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.07.2007
• EAN: 9781558495869
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-586-9
• Pagine: 408
• Serie: Culture, Politics & the Cold War
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica