The End of Victory Culture
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In The End of Victory Culture, Tom Engelhardt provides readers with what one reviewer labels ômemoir historyö, the ômerging of autobiography with historical eventsö (Gilbert 246). In his memoir history, Engelhardt provides an account of the nature and decline of a national narrative he labels ôvictory culture.ö Victory culture pertains to the American military ideal, one that reinforces the enemy as the evil ôOtherö and has clear-cut distinctions between Americans as the ôgood guysö and the enemy as the ôbad guysö. Reinforced by everything from childrenÆs toys to popular media, this ethos came to full fruition during WWII, a war with enemies that enabled a full expression of the ôvictory culture.ö 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 ôvictory cultureö. Now, as Gilbert maintains of the culture left in its wake, ôThe result is a culture turned in and on itself, living a contradiction
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