
Cult of the Victim-Veteran
Choice Editors'' Picks for April 2024
2024 Choice Review Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award Winner
The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation’s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump f...
Choice Editors'' Picks for April 2024
2024 Choice Review Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award Winner
The Cult of the Victim-Veteran explores the pool of American post- Vietnam War angst that rightists began plying in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of a new "Morning in America" encoded the war as the moment of the nation’s fall from grace; it was the meme plagiarized by Donald Trump f...