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Peter Bacon Hales

Peter Bacon Hales, chair of the Art History Department and director of the American Studies Institute at the University of Illinois, Chicago, is the author of Atomic Spaces: Living on the Manhattan Project. He is currently completing a cultural history of America from Hiroshima to The Sims.


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