The Culture of Defeat
Subtitle: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery
Contributors: Jefferson Chase (Translator)
Publisher: Picador
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312423193
Subjects: History & Theory - General; Military - General; Peace; History / General; General; Biography & Autobiography; Politics / Current Events; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: The American Civil War squats in the middle of the nineteenth century like a monstrous irony.