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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Transforming Resorts | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | The Creation of Saratoga Springs: Taking the City with Us | 7 |
| Ch. 2 | The Revival of Newport: The Pilgrimage of Fashion | 40 |
| Ch. 3 | The Rise of Coney Island: Strangers in the Land of the Perpetual Fete | 75 |
| Ch. 4 | The Public Resort: To See and Be Seen | 112 |
| Ch. 5 | The Commercialization of Saratoga Springs: Racetracks, Casinos, and Souvenirs | 146 |
| Ch. 6 | The Privatization of Newport: "Coarseness and Vulgarity Are Never Seen Here" | 182 |
| Ch. 7 | "That Was Coney As We Loved it, and As the Hand of Satan Was upon it" | 229 |
| Conclusion: The Pursuit of Privacy, Profit, and Pleasure | 263 | |
| Notes | 279 | |
| Bibliographical Essay | 349 | |
| Index | 359 |
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Phong Van
reviewed First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island on February 07, 2013
First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island
There is a lot of great stuff in this book but it is a bit long and repetitive. An edited second edition could bring it up a star, easily. The author obviously knows his stuff.
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Add First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island, At the dawn of the nineteenth century, Saratoga Springs hosted no more than a thousand hardy travelers yearly, Newport floundered in the midst of a fifty-year commercial decline, and Coney Island's beach resembled a wind-swept wilderness. A hundred years, First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport and Coney Island to your collection on WonderClub |
