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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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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.
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