Kid of Coney Island Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements

Name: Kid of Coney Island Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
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ISBN: 9780195144932

ISBN-10: 0195144937

ISBN-13: 9780195144932

Edition: 2001

Authors: Woody Register

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A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, cultural historian Woody Register tells the remarkable story of Thompson and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Register shows how Thompson got his start as a creator and promoter of carnival shows and world's fairs, including the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and he traces Thompson's…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/18/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.30" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Woody Register (Ph.D., Brown University) is Professor of History at Sewanee: The University of the South. His research concerns consumer culture, popular amusements, and masculinity. He is the author of The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements (Oxford).



Acknowledgments



Uncle Sam's a Boy at Play



The Moon for a Plaything Fred Thompson's Apprenticeship in Play, 1873-1901



Life Is Only a Merry-Go-Round Luna Park, 1903-13



New York's Gigantic Toy The Hippodrome, 1902-6



Millionaires and Monsters Melodramas of Consumption, 1906-12



We're Playing Games The Toylands of Peter Pan Culture, 1912-30



A Kindergarten Preacher in Toys


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