The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life After the Good War

By Philip D. Beidler

Book Overview

In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post-WWII America: the national blindness toward the Holocaust and a rising China, the canker of McCarthyism, ascendant cultures of hard smoking and heavy drinking, the worship of cars and film idols, and the chronic fear of an always-possible nuclear apocalypse. In lively, driving prose, he recalls veiled episodes in the history of the Korean War, the civil rights movement, and the struggle for women's liberation. On these subjects and many others, Beidler draws from his own experience and a penetrating grasp of American social history, offering deep, pointed, and comprehensive perspectives on iconic moments in American history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358455
• ISBN13: 9780817358457
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 292 Pages