A new edition of Tom Engelhardt’s 1995 book The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation has just come out, updated to cover recent history. You can learn more about it here, and read the 2007 preface here.
See also the newest TomDispatch piece, by Engelhardt: “Seven Years in Hell: On Body Counts, Dead Zones, and an Empire of Stupidity”