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An Atlantic City Reader : The Rise and Decline of an American Resort.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parascandola, Louis J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlantic City (N.J.)--Description and travel.
- Atlantic City (N.J.).
- Atlantic City (N.J.)--History.
- Atlantic City (N.J.)--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers.Generation upon generation of novelists, journalists, musicians, and poets visited Atlantic City and left with vivid impressions of its kaleidoscopic delights and its seedy underbelly.
- Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- FOREWORD
- SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF ATLANTIC CITY
- INTRODUCTION
- From ATLANTIC CITY: ITS EARLY AND MODERN HISTORY
- From WINTER SUNRISE
- From OUR AMERICAN BRIGHTON
- From ATLANTIC CITY AS A WINTER SANITARIUM
- From HESTON'S HANDBOOK OF ATLANTIC CITY
- From SEASIDE LIFE IN AMERICA
- ON THE BOARDWALK (IN ATLANTIC CITY)
- From "THEY CAN'T HELP GETTING WELL HERE"
- From THE BOARD-WALKERS
- ATLANTIC CITY: A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE
- THE RISE AND FALL OF KUEHNLE
- From FROM DUBLIN TO CHICAGO
- From NEW COSMOPOLIS
- From IMITATION OF LIFE
- THE AMERICAN UTOPIA: ATLANTIC CITY
- From OUR AMERICAN ADVENTURE
- ATLANTIC CITY WAITER
- SAND
- WHEN BASEBALL WAS ATLANTIC CITY'S PASTIME
- From ATLANTIC CITY PROOF
- THE ATLANTIC CITY CONVENTION
- DARK DOLORES
- From A GIRL AND FIVE BRAVE HORSES
- From OF THEE I SING
- From FLORENCE ADLER SWIMS FOREVER
- A GAME OF MONOPOLY IN CHAVANNES
- From THE BOARDWALK
- From THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH
- HOW THEY GOT NUCKY JOHNSON
- WAR AT THE SHORE
- BOARDWALK IN SEASON
- SEASHORE THROUGH DARK GLASSES (ATLANTIC CITY)
- From ROSE
- FAMOUS ROLLING CHAIRS BESIDE THE SEA
- STEEL PIER 1962
- HOW THE 1964 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION SHOWED ATLANTIC CITY'S DECAY
- From LOOKING FOR MISS AMERICA
- ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK: THE THIRD ATTRACTION
- A DOWAGER'S DECLINE
- THE SEARCH FOR MARVIN GARDENS
- From THE HOTEL ON ST. JAMES PLACE
- ATLANTIC CITY
- RAZING THE TENEMENTS IN ATLANTIC CITY
- From GLITZ
- From UNDER THE BOARDWALK
- From INDECENT PROPOSAL
- From BOARDWALK OF BROKEN DREAMS
- From ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER
- From BOARDWALK
- From MEET ME TONIGHT IN ATLANTIC CITY
- ATLANTIC CITY SUNDAY MORNING
- LABOR DAY: ATLANTIC CITY
- BOARDWALK VAMPIRE
- IS ATLANTIC CITY FINALLY ON A ROLL?.
- PLANNED 2.7 BILLION ATLANTIC CITY DEVELOPMENT CALLS FOR THOUSANDS OF HOMES, STORES AND RACETRACK
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- TEXT CREDITS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE EDITORS.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-9788-4248-1
- OCLC:
- 1591817261
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