The Kid of Coney Island
Subtitle: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 18, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195167320
First sentence: KING Morpheus of Slumberland issued the foregoing lyrical indictment of the paragons of American civilization-the "av'rage" businessmen-near the beginning of the 1908 Broadway spectacle Little Nemo.