| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls. By Karen Dubinsky. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xiv, 290 pp. Cloth, $52.00, isbn 0-8135-2655-8. Paper, $22.00, isbn 0-8135-2656-6.)

Existing scholarship on Niagara Falls has focused predominantly on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century history, exploring the falls as a manifestation of the natural and technological sublime, as an icon of the nation, and as an emblem of preservation policy. Little attention has been given to the more multifarious underside of Niagara Falls as a popular twentieth-century tourist attraction. In The Second Greatest Disappointment, Karen Dubinsky pushes this scholarship in new directions through her exploration of Niagara Falls as the "honeymoon capital of the world." Tracing the history of the tourist trade in Niagara Falls, Ontario, from the 1830s to the 1960s and the concurrent development of the honeymoon as a ritual of heterosexual marriage, Dubinsky argues that the production of Niagara Falls as a popular tourist attraction was a complex cultural process that took place across political and economic as well as social and sexual dimensions. . . .

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