The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (Revised Edition with new preface and afterword)

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 Husseins's Iraq; and how, from its Mission Accomplished moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.