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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

by John F Kasson

About this title: Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. "Amusing the Million" examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he ... read more

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Binding: Paperback Publisher: Hill and Wang Date Published: 1978 ISBN-13: 9780809001330 ISBN: 0809001330

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3 out of 5

Mar 2, 2009

By Lara, Marquette, MI

"This book was more interesting than I thought it would be, but while it focused so much on the mixing of classes, it completely ignored race, aside from new European immigrants."

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Jun 14, 2008

By Ali, Pittsburgh, PA

"I read this for class; it only took me two hours since there are lots of pictures! It's good if you're interested in this sort of thing."

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3 out of 5

Sep 29, 2007

By Anne, Loomis, CA

"This book was an interesting look at the phenomena of Coney Island, the largest stretch of amusement park that pretty much ever was. It was a very interesting book that commented on an emerging culture, however I think certain areas were very pointedly left out. Also, the author tried to validate himself by using lots of "educated words" which, while it didn't bother me too much, did make the reading a bit more tiresome."

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4 out of 5

Sep 7, 2007

By erin, Ann Arbor, MI

"a nice history of coney island and the rise of amusement parks, with the best part being the analysis of the clash between genteel values and the newly emerging identities spawned from industrialization."

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