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About the Contributors Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History at Pennsylvania State University, is author or editor of eleven books of retrospection on contemporary American and European society, popular culture, work, and leisure. His books include The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places Across the Twentieth Century (with John Walton), The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children’s Culture, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America, Kids’ Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood, and A Social History of Leisure: Since 1600. Paula S. Fass is Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of several books, including the Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s, Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America, Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education, and the editor of The Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society and Childhood in America. She is currently working on children and globalization. Steven M. Gelber is Professor of History at Santa Clara University in California . His most recent book is Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America. He is currently working on a study of the history of American horse trading and car dealing from which this chapter is drawn. Susan J. Matt is Associate Professor of History at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. She is the author of Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890–1930. She currently is writing a book on the history of homesickness in America.  Linda W. Rosenzweig was Professor of History at Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has authored The Anchor of My Life: MiddleClass American Mothers and Daughters, 1880–1920 and Another Self: Middle -Class American Women and Their Friends in the Twentieth Century. Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author of Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, which won the Avery O. Craven Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians. His other books include Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, and two edited collections, The Old South and Hearing History: A Reader. He has published articles in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Southern History, and the Journal of Social History. His next book, due out in 2006 with the University of North Carolina Press, is titled How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the South. Suzanne E. Smith is Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. She is the author of Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit. Her current book project is titled To Serve the Living: A Cultural History of African-American Funeral Directing. Peter N. Stearns is Provost and Professor at George Mason University. He has written widely on behavioral history, particularly in areas such as emotion, old age, and dieting/obesity. He is editor of the Journal of Social History and past Vice President (teaching division) of the American Historical Association. Kevin White is the author of The First Sexual Revolution and Sexual Liberation and Sexual License. He is currently Assistant Coordinator of Access to the Portsmouth University, United Kingdom.  Contributors ...

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