Atlantic City Reader

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The Rise and Decline of an American Resort

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Louis J. Parascandola, John Parascandola, Louis J Parascandola

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An Atlantic City Reader provides a representative sampling of the best of the many disparate interpretations of the iconic resort by famous authors (Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Damon Runyon, Langston Hughes, and Elmore Leonard) as well as lesser known but insightful observers, including Frank Ward O’Malley and John Matheus. The Reader offers a composite of fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction prose, and newspaper and magazine reports, presenting a context to understand better the complex nature of Atlantic City. Divided into four chronological periods, the anthology traces the city’s history from its humble beginnings as a quiet resort destination to its rapid ascent as the "world’s playground," its gradual decline, and its hopeful, albeit tenuous, future. While chronicling its storied past, the book also shows the parallel nature of its endemic political corruption and racism that have always been embedded in the city.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-12
Mått178 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor242
FörlagRutgers University Press
MedarbetareGoldLevi,Vicki
ISBN9781978842465

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Louis J. Parascandola is a professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of several books including J.A. Rogers: Voice of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Selected Writings and A Coney Island Reader (with John Parascandola). John Parascandola (1941-2024) was a professor of the history of pharmacy and history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Chief, History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine in Washington DC. He is the author of numerous books, including Studies in the History of Modern Pharmacology and Drug Therapy and King of Poisons: A History of Arsenic.

List of Illustrations xiii Foreword by Vicki Gold Levi xv Selected Chronology of Atlantic City xvii Introduction 1 Louis J. Parascandola The Early Years: Beginnings to 1916 From Atlantic City: Its Early and Modern History 39 Carnesworthe From "Winter Sunrise" 41 Walt Whitman From "Our American Brighton" 43 Maurice M. Howard From Atlantic City as a Winter Sanitarium: Its Geology, Climate, and Isothermal Relations, and Its Sanitary Effect upon Diseases and Invalids 47 [John T. King] From Heston's Handbook of Atlantic City 53 A. M. Heston From "Seaside Life in America" 57 Francis H. Hardy "On the Boardwalk (in Atlantic City)" 63 Mack Gordon and Josef Myrow From "'They Can't Help Getting Well Here': Seaside Hospitals for Children in the United States: 1872–1917" 65 Meghan Crnic and Cynthia Connoll yFrom "The Board-Walkers: Ten Days with Bertha at Atlantic City" 70 Frank Ward O'Mall ey "Atlantic City: A Study in Black and White" 77 Margaret L. Brett "The Rise and Fall of Kuehnle" 81 Literary Digest From From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America 89 George A. Birmingham From New Cosmopolis: A Book of Images 97 James Huneker From Imitation of Life 101 Fanny Hurst The "Golden" Years: 1917–1946 "The American Utopia: Atlantic City" 109 Bruce Bliven From Our American Adventure 113 Arthur Conan Doyle "Atlantic City Waiter" 116 Countee Cull en "Sand" 118 John Matheus "When Baseball Was Atlantic City's Pastime" 123 Diane Stopyra (Buzz Keough) From Atlantic City Proof 128 Christopher Cook Gilmore From "The Atlantic City Convention" 134 Will iam Carlos Will iams "Dark Dolores" 137 Damon RunyonFrom A Girl and Five Brave Horses 150 Sonora Webster Carver From Of Thee I Sing: A Musical Play in Two Acts 160 George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, book; George Gershwin, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics From Florence Adler Swims Forever 165 Rachel Beanland "A Game of Monopoly in Chavannes" 169 Maxine Kumin From The Boardwalk 172 Robert Kotlowitz From The Skin of Our Teeth 179 Thornton Wilder "How They Got Nucky Johnson" 186 Jack Al exander "War at the Shore" 196 Jim Waltzer and Tom Wilk Post–World War II Decline: 1947–1976 "Boardwalk in Season" 209 E. J. Kahn Jr. "Seashore Through Dark Glasses (Atlantic City)" 215 Langston Hughes From Rose 217 Martin Sherman "Famous Rolling Chairs Beside the Sea" 222 Gay Talese "Atlantic City Boardwalk: The Third Attraction" 226 Rochell e Ratner "How the 1964 Democratic Convention Showed Atlantic City's Decay" 228 Steven Lemongell oFrom Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood 234 Margot Miffl in "Steel Pier 1962" 249 Sandra E. Lundy "A Dowager's Decline" 251 Newsweek "The Search for Marvin Gardens" 255 John McPhee From The Hotel on St. James Place: Growing Up in Atlantic City Between the Boardwalk and the Holocaust 267 Moll y Golubcow Gambling and Beyond? 1976 to the Present "Atlantic City" 275 Bruce Sp ringsteen "Atlantic City" 277 Stephen Dunn "Razing the Tenements in Atlantic City" 279 Barbara Helf gott Hyett From Glitz 282 El more Leonard From Under the Boardwalk 286 Bill Kent From Indecent Proposal 291 Jack Engelhard From "Boardwalk of Broken Dreams" 296 Priscill a Painton From Only Begotten Daughter 306 James MorrowFrom Boardwalk 313 Joseph Kertes From Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City: A Memoir 317 Jane Wong "Atlantic City Sunday Morning" 323 Gregory Pardlo "Labor Day: Atlantic City" 325 Peter E. Murphy "Boardwalk Vampire" 327 Steven Malanga "Is Atlantic City Finally on a Roll?" 336 Ed Condran "Planned $2.7 Billion Atlantic City Development Calls for Thousands of Homes, Stores and Racetrack" 341 Jeff Goldman Acknowledgments 343 Text Credits 345 Index 351