Selected Reading

Baker, Kevin. Dreamland. New York, NY: Harper, 1999.

Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. New York, NY: Harper, 2009.

Denson, Charles. Coney Island: Lost and Found. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 2002.

______. Wild Ride: A Coney Island Roller Coaster Family. Berkeley, CA: Dreamland Press, 2007.

Epstein, Lawrence J. At the Edge of a Dream: The Story of Jewish Immigrants on New York’s Lower East Side, 1880–1920. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Fangone, Jason. Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream. New York, NY: Crown, 2006.

Frank, Robin Jaffee, ed. Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2015

Handwerker, Murray. Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Cookbook. New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.

Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Jakle, John A., and Keith A. Sculle. Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1978.

Marianski, Stanley, Adam Marianski, and Miroslaw Gebarowski. Polish Sausages: Authentic Recipes and Instructions. Seminole, FL: Bookmagic, 2009.

Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan. The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.