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"Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now" by Peter Bacon Hales
Since its inception, America has always seen itself as a player upon the grand stage of history. Poised as a "city on a hill" between promise and peril, we have pursued our Manifest Destiny ever since the arrival of our Puritan forebears upon these lush, Edenic shores. Even in the early centuries before becoming globally significant, American cultural consciousness has included a sense that in our politics, our conquest, our growth and prosperity we were creating a new way of living in the world’an experiment in righteousness allegedly shaped by an understanding of divine election and vocation.
If Americans have always had this flair for the dramatic, Peter Bacon Hales suggests in his monumental new study in American cultural history, Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now, then two images in particular provide the major set-pieces for that drama from World War II to the present: first, Hiroshima's mushroom cloud reaching to the heavens, grimly hinting at the hellish devastation below; and second, the new American heaven-on-earth promised in the tidy box-houses of Levittown.
Beginning with the end of the war, Hales maps the u
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Peter Bacon Hales Home Address: 85 Old Kings Highway, Stone Ridge, NY 12484 Office Address: Art History Department , m/c 201 The University of Illinois, Chicago 935 W. Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607 Telephones: University (312) 413-2461; Home (773) 416-6233 Email: pbhales@uic.edu, pbhales@gmail.com EDUCATION A.B. Haverford College, Honors in English and American Literature, 1972 M.A. University of Texas at Austin, American Civilization, 1976 Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, American Civilization, 1980 ACADEMIC POSITIONS: TEACHING -Lecturer, American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton, 1980; -Assistant Professor, History of Architecture and Art Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1980 to 1987; -Associate Professor, History of Architecture and Art Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1987-1991; -Professor, Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1991-2012; -Visiting Professor, Photography Department, Columbia College Chicago, 2002-2006; -Professor Emeritus, Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, 2012-Present. ACADEMIC POSITIONS: ADMINISTRATION -Director, The American Studies Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1991- 2010 -Director of Graduate Studies, History of Architecture and Art Depa
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