The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.

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David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palac

With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, e