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Outside the Gates of Eden
Peter Bacon Hales
其他書名
The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2014-04-11
主題
History / United States / 20th Century
History / Social History
ISBN
022612861X
9780226128610
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NohFAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The cultural historian and author of
Atomic Spaces
offers a comprehensive account of the Baby Boomer years—from the atomic age to the virtual age.
Born under the shadow of the atomic bomb, with little security but the cold comfort of duck-and-cover drills, the postwar generations lived through—and led—some of the most momentous changes in all of American history. In this new cultural history, Peter Bacon Hales explores those decades through a succession of resonant moments, spaces, and artifacts of everyday life. Finding unexpected connections, he traces the intertwined undercurrents of promise and peril.
From newsreels of the first atomic bomb tests to the invention of a new ideal American life in Levittown; from the teen pop music of the Brill Building and the Beach Boys to Bob Dylan’s canny transformations; from the painful failures of communes to the breathtaking utopian potential of the digital age, Hales reveals a nation in transition as a new generation began to make its mark on the world it was inheriting.
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.
