America Through the Looking Glass Vol. II. A Historical Reader in Popular Culture

INTRODUCTION 1
part 1 the industrial age, 1870-1910 7

EDUCATION AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE 11
Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer's Bout With Schoolbooks, 11
The Rover Boys: Into the Heart of Africa, 16
Finley Peter Dunne: The Carnegic Libraries, 19
L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz, 22

SEX AND THE FAMILY 31
Heart Songs df the American People, 31
Manners That Win, 32
Anthony Comstock: Traps For the Young, 37

THE WORLD OF WORK 40
Down on Penny's Farm, 40


The Farmer is the Man, 41 part 2 the electronic age: since 1910 143
"Solidarity Forever," 42
Edwin Markham: The Man With the Hoe, 43
GROWING UP 147
Edgar Lee Masters: Spoon River Anthology, 44
Testimony of Thomas O'Donnell, 46 U.S. Government: Infant Care, 147

Russell H. Conwell: Acres of Diamonds, 50 Nixon Waterman: "Boy Wanted," 149
Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives, 51 Dr. Hollick: The Solitary Vice, 156

Nellie Bly: Against the Monsoon, 55 "How To Bait A Date," 167

• POPULAR FAVORITES 169
PLAY 58
Home, 169
The Bicycle Craze, "58 Casey Stengel and the Sparrow, 171
The Free Lunch, 64 Mad'moiselle from Armetiéres, 172

James Hopper: The Fullback Who Got Used To It, 66 Elmer W. Sherwood, Diaré, 175
g Rod McKuen: Listen to the Warm, 181

Tongue-Twisters, 182
ENTERTAINMENT AND UPLIFT 71 Lili Marleen, 185

Mark Twain: Huck Finn's "Arkansaw Difficulty," 71 Dirty Gertie From Bizerte, 185
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes, 79 Miscellany, 186

Owen Wister: The Virginian, 85
Sax Rohmer: The Insidiaus Dr. Fu-Manchu, 89 VAUDEVILLE 189

Joyce Kilmer: Trees, 97 Vaudeville Varieties; 189

Valentino's Death, 195
Fred Allen, "Vodvil," 203
PUBLIC LIFE 98

The Dodger, 98
Thomas Dixon, jr.: Why I Wrote the Clansman, 99 RADIO 208
Carry A. Nation: Autobiography, 103 "Amos 'n' Andy," 208
Orson Welles: War of the Worlds, 214
A Radio Rivalry: Who's Got the Ball? 223

SUBCULTURES 106 Bill Stern: Radio Bloopers, 226

Ward McAllister: The 400, 106
W. E. B. DuBois: Black Music, 109 TELEVISION 228

Coon Songs, 114 What's My Line, 228

"Who Watches What? " 233
TV Violence: J. Edgar Hoover Speaks Out, 238

THE MOVIES 117


MOVIES 240
The Charm of Wistfulness, 240
Is Jack Gilbert Through? 242
Letters, 246
Religion in Hollywood, 250

CITY SLICKERS 254
Herbert Asbury: The Gangs of New York, 254
Marriages Arranged, 261
O. Henry: A Lickpenny Lover, 262
Chicago May, 267
This Is New York, 270
The Subway, 273

SUBCULTURES 275
Labor Song, 275
Harlem House-Rent Parties, 276
Numbers in Harlem, 278
Thomas Wolfe: American Names, 279
We Shall Overcome, 284
Ethnic and Regional Humor, 285

PUBLIC ENEMIES 288
The Bonus Marchers, 288
Slick Tricks of the Commies, 291

HEROES 296
Thomas Edison in His Workshop, 296
A Poor Aviator Lay Dying, 299
Charles Lindbergh: We, 300
Albert Einstein: A New Folk Hero, 304