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Offers an account of the life and death of the American myth of conquest. Engelhardt describes the mood of "triumphalist despair" in post-WWII America and explores pop culture icons of the Cold War. Topics include the link between the fear of communism and the rise of youth culture in the 1950s, cowboy and war films of the 1960s, the Vietnam war and the Gulf war. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.