Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. (Reviews).(Book Review)

Journal of Social History | March 22, 2003| | Copyright

Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. By John F. Kasson (New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. viii plus 256 pp.).

The historian John Kasson has over the past thirty years produced work that has always stunned and surprised. His 1978 Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century masterfully delineated the development of new codes of leisure and play a hundred years ago. Kasson's 1991 work, Rudeness and Civility exposed the hypocrisies and ruses that pervaded the Victorian American urban middle ...

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