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Author:
Hales, Peter B. (Peter Bacon), author.
Title:
Outside the gates of Eden : the dream of America from Hiroshima to now / Peter Bacon Hales.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
471 p. ; 27 cm.
Subject:
United States--Civilization--20th century.
Popular culture--United States.
United States--History--1945-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The atomic sublime -- Bombing the West, 1951 -- Tracking shot: Miracle on 34th Street and the birth of an atomic America -- Looking at Levittown -- Levittown's palimpsest: colored skin -- Mr. Levitt's television -- The incredible exploding house, Yucca Flat, Nevada, March, 1953 -- Lucy! -- Technologies of space and place, 1962 -- Two satellites, 1962 -- Portable communities: radio, 1962 -- Dylan's America -- Hendrix on Mt. Pisgah -- Counter-landscapes -- Retreating to utopia -- Pong versus computer space, 1972 -- Simerica.
ISBN:
0226313158 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226313153 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)857898103
LCCN:
2013036230
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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