Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

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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’s 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 and tracing the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril. From sharp analyses of newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests and the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the music emerging from the Brill Building and the Beach Boys, and a brilliant account of Bob Dylan’s transformations; from the painful failures of communes and the breathtaking utopian potential of the early days of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation, and a dream, in transition, as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting.Full of richly drawn set-pieces and countless stories of unforgettable moments, Outside the Gates of Eden is the most comprehensive account yet of the baby boomers, their parents, and their 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.

Author(s): Hales, Peter Bacon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2014

Language: Russian
Pages: 496
City: Chicago, London
Tags: Культурология;История культуры;История культуры США;

Introduction
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, 1963
Dylan's America
Hendrix on Mount Pisgah
Counter-Landscapes
Retreating to Utopia
Pong versus Computer Space 1972
Simerica
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index