{"product_id":"an-atlantic-city-reader-the-rise-and-decline-of-an-american-resort-paperback","title":"An Atlantic City Reader: The Rise and Decline of an American Resort - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouis J. Parascandola\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJohn Parascandola\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eVicki Gold Levi\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new reader collects all of these diverse perspectives on the city in one place, including accounts of Atlantic City by such famous visitors as Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Fanny Hurst, Arthur Conan Doyle, Damon Runyon, Langston Hughes, Elmore Leonard, and Bruce Springsteen. Arranged chronologically, the anthology traces the city's history from its humble beginnings as a quiet health resort to its rapid ascent to the world's playground, its gradual decline, and its hopeful if tenuous future. Together, the pieces in this collection take us inside the city's glitz, glamor, and gambling palaces, but they also don't shy away from its troubling histories of racial discrimination, political corruption, and urban decay. Compiling fiction, poetry, drama, memoirs, newspaper stories, and magazine reports, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic City Reader \u003c\/i\u003epresents an engaging and multifaceted portrait of this iconic resort town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLOUIS J. PARASCANDOLA \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY. He is the editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eJ. A. Rogers: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Coney Island Reader \u003c\/i\u003e(with John Parascandola).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJOHN PARASCANDOLA\u003c\/b\u003e (1941-2024) taught at the University of Wisconsin - Madison before serving as chief of the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine and as Public Health Service Historian. His many books include \u003ci\u003eSex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis in America \u003c\/i\u003e(2008) and \u003ci\u003eKing of Poisons: A History of Arsenic \u003c\/i\u003e(2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 382\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.44 x 7.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377357119795,"sku":"9781978842465","price":39.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/O0cH18VtmS9781978842465.webp?v=1779321057","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/an-atlantic-city-reader-the-rise-and-decline-of-an-american-resort-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}