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Book Review

The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. By Woody Register. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. xii, 400 pp. $35.00,ISBN 0-19-514493-7.)
In this fascinating book, Woody Register concentrates on the public writings, architectural plans, and cultural products of Fred Thompson, the man best known for creating Luna Park in Coney Island and Broadway's Hippodrome Theater. His father was an industrial engineer and an exemplar of industrial production and Victorian manhood, but young Thompson mastered engineering and architecture to build elaborate play machines: from trips to the moon at expositions during the 1890s to rides at Luna Park and elaborate mechanical stage sets at the Hippodrome. In all of these he was a model of a new middle-class ethic of play. . . .
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