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Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
Peter Bacon Hales
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Description for Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
Hardcover. Tells the history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age. This is an account of the baby boomers, their parents, and children, as seen through the places they built, the music and movies and shows they loved, and the battles they fought to define their nation, their culture, and their place in what remains a fragile and dangerous world. Num Pages: 496 pages, 105 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 179 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Hales' ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover, the postwar generations lived through - and led - some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. Hales explores those decades through perceptive accounts of a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life - drawing unexpected connections ... Read more
Exhilaration and anxiety, the yearning for community and the quest for identity: these shared, contradictory feelings course through Outside the Gates of Eden, Peter Bacon Hales' ambitious and intoxicating new history of America from the atomic age to the virtual age. Born under the shadow of the bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover, the postwar generations lived through - and led - some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. Hales explores those decades through perceptive accounts of a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life - drawing unexpected connections ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226313153
SKU
V9780226313153
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About Peter Bacon Hales
Peter Bacon Hales is professor emeritus of the history of art and architecture and director emeritus of the American Studies Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of several books, including, most recently, Atomic Cities: Living on the Manhattan Project. He lives and writes in New York's Hudson Valley.
Reviews for Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
"This is an utterly original, unprecedented work of cultural history and commentary, a tour de force, based on an exhaustive array of sources, explicating American experience from World War II to the present. There are simply no books on this period with this scope." (Jeffrey L. Meikle, University of Texas at Austin)"