A Changing Attitude

In Kasson’s “Amusing the Millions”, he examines America in what can be viewed as its mid-life crisis. The turn of the century brought about unprecedented prosperity, unparalleled world power, and a before unseen desire for entertainment. America was trying to come to grips with its new place in the world and its citizenry was attempting to redefine the countries demeanor. The United States was going through a time of reconciliation. It was a reconciliation …showed first 75 words of 619 total…

…showed last 75 words of 619 total…healing. It came at a time of great change and upheaval domestically and internationally. It was a necessity that the citizenry be able to distract themselves from a less than perfect world. That at least for the moment, you did not have to focus in the reality of the time. You were there at the Jersey shore. You needed nothing else at that moment but to smile and laugh. For that moment you were there.