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<p><p>during The First Half Of The Twentieth Century, Atlantic City Was The Nation's Most Popular Middle-class Resort&#151;the Home Of The Famed Boardwalk, The Miss America Pageant, And The Board Game Monopoly. By The Late 1960s, It Had Become A Symbol Of Urban Decay And Blight, Compared By Journalists To Bombed-out Dresden And War-torn Beirut. Several Decades And A Dozen Casinos Later, Atlantic City Is Again One Of America's Most Popular Tourist Spots, With Thirty-five Million Visitors A Year. Yet Most Stay For A Mere Six Hours, And The Highway Has Replaced The Boardwalk As The City's Most Important Thoroughfare. Today The City Doesn't Have A Single Movie Theater And Its One Supermarket Is A Virtual Fortress Protected By Metal Detectors And Security Guards.<br> In This Wide-ranging Book, Bryant Simon Does Far More Than Tell A Nostalgic Tale Of Atlantic City's Rise, Near Death, And Reincarnation. He Turns The Depiction Of Middle-class Vacationers Into A Revealing Discussion Of The Boundaries Of Public Space In Urban America. In The Past, He Argues, The Public Was Never Really About Democracy, But About Exclusion. During Atlantic City's Heyday, African Americans Were Kept Off The Bo

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Author

Bryant Simon; Oxford University Press

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195167535

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.69 / 5 (52 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14