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

by Peter Bacon Hales

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226313158
• ISBN13: 9780226313153
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 10.3"