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In The End of Victory Culture, Tom Engelhardt provides readers with what one reviewer labels "memoir history", the "merging of autobiography with historical events" (Gilbert 246). In his memoir history, Engelhardt provides an account of the nature and decline of a national narrative he labels "victory culture." Victory culture pertains to the American military ideal, one that reinforces the enemy as the evil "Other" and has clear-cut distinctions between Americans as the "good guys" and the enemy as the "bad guys". Reinforced by everything from children's toys to popular media, this ethos came to full fruition during WWII, a war with enemies that enabled a full expression of the "victory culture." Despite this ethos, Engelhardt contends that the lack of a clear-cut enemy in wars following WWII and social phenomenon like the Civil Rights movement eroded the "victory culture". Now, as Gilbert maintains of the culture left in its wake, "The result is a culture turned in and on itself, living a contradiction
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