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A 7 page paper which provides
a book review of Tom Engelhardt’s “The End of the Victory Culture.” Bibliography lists
1 additional source.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAengvic.rtf
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any international or domestic endeavor, and that, for the most part, it perhaps has the market on power and righteousness. Part of this belief likely stemmed from the fact that
for much of the history of the United States it did prove victorious and it did rise above conditions or events and take charge in a manner that offered victory.
However, there were times when this victorious vision was challenged, and ultimately destroyed according to Tom Engelhardt. In Engelhardts book "The End of the Victory Culture" he illustrates how the
bombing of Pearl Harbor (and relations with Japan), the Cold War, and Vietnam all demonstrated that we were a nation that had seen the end of our victory culture. The
following paper first offers a general summary of Engelhardts work in terms of his argument. The paper then offers the personal opinion of this particular reader as it relates to
Engelhardts work. A published review of Engelhardts book, and a reaction to the review, finishes the essay. Summary/Argument Engelhardts primary thesis is that the United States has always
believed that it was indestructible and that it is correct. It has felt that anything it undertook would end with victory. However, with Pearl Harbor and then the Vietnam War
the United States was proved wrong. Engelhardt argues that through these two things, combined with the threat of nuclear war, the United States was now quite vulnerable and paranoid as
well because now they were no longer victorious. Engelhardt first takes us on the journey of the United States as a non-victorious nation, through a somewhat brief summary of
the Asian invasion and WWII. He then takes the reader into the times that were known as the Cold War. In these times he points out how the culture changed,
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