Reviews of The Lost Tribe of Coney Island
Kirkus Reviews THE LOST TRIBE OF CONEY ISLAND: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled Off the Spectacle of the Century by Claire Prentice Published in Kirkus Reviews, 19 August 2014 This...
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Review Issue: October 15, 2014 The Lost Tribe of Coney Island: Headhunters, Luna Park, and the Man Who Pulled off the Spectacle of the Century. Prentice, Claire (Author) Oct 2014. 432 p. Houghton/New...
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Show Biz Pride and Shame; Hotel’s Hyphen Books About Danny Aiello, Filipino Natives on Coney Island and the Waldorf-Astoria 19 October 2014 Sam Roberts Danny Aiello once proclaimed, “I want to be...
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Autumn Reading: The Lost Tribe of Coney Island November 10, 2014 by Tricia In 1905, when Coney Island had a trio of three grand amusement parks–Steeplechase, Luna and Dreamland–popular attractions...
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America is full of forgotten places. Some were never known to more than a few people to begin with; others spent considerable time in the zeitgeist before that fickle friend moved on to another place,...
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15 December 2014 The Lost Tribe of Coney Island, by Claire Prentice (New Harvest). In 1904, the United States government, eager to drum up public support for its occupation of the Philippines, brought...
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March 16, 2015 Brilliant US book tells the tragic true story of the ‘Igorrotes’ after the 1904 World’s Fair By Ruel S. De Vera MANILA, Philippines—The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair in St. Louis,...
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