Description 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..
Description 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
