Cloth $40.00 ISBN: 9780226313153 Will Publish April 2014

Outside the Gates of Eden

The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now

Peter Bacon Hales

Outside the Gates of Eden
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Peter Bacon Hales

496 pages | 105 halftones | 7 x 10 | © 2014
Cloth $40.00 ISBN: 9780226313153 Will Publish April 2014
Contents
An Introduction
 
Chapter 1: The Atomic Sublime
Chapter 2: Bombing the West, 1951
Chapter 3: Tracking Shot: Miracle on 34th Street and the Birth of an Atomic America
Chapter 4: Looking at Levittown
Chapter 5: Levittown’s Palimpsest: Colored Skin
Chapter 6: Mr. Levitt’s Television
Chapter 7: The Incredible Exploding House, Yucca Flat, Nevada, March, 1953
Chapter 8: Lucy!
Chapter 9: Technologies of Space and Place, 1962
Chapter 10: Two Satellites, 1962
Chapter 11: Portable Communities: Radio, 1962
Chapter 12: Dylan’s America
Chapter 13: Hendrix on Mt. Pisgah
Chapter 14: Counter-Landscapes
Chapter 15: Retreating to Utopia
Chapter 16: Pong versus Computer Space, 1972
Chapter 17. Simerica
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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