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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- ISSN
- 1747-7654
- eISSN
- 1476-6825
- DOI
- 10.1080/14766820903155337
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2009, 235–246 Are we there yet? The Golden Age of American family vacations, by Susan Sessions Rugh, Lawrence, KS, University Press of Kansas, 2008. Xiiþ240 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1588-9 Susan Sessions Rugh’s second mass-market monograph, Are we there yet? The Golden Age of American family vacations, is a well researched and enjoyable to read but marred, unfortunately, by numerous minor inconsistencies in the theoretical framework and technical details. The book is extremely wide ranging in both topical coverage and use of historical references adding to its readability but leaving the focus somewhat unclear. Dr Rugh describes an age of family vacationing stretching from 1945–1973 (if you refer to the book’s sleeve) or from 1945 ‘until the 1970s’ if you refer to the text (p. 2). It would seem that Rugh has bounded this ‘Golden Age’ with the conclusion of World War II at one end and the disappearance of ‘families who fit the family ideal of the period’ at the other (pp. 11–12). It is unclear whether the end of Rugh’s ‘Golden Age’ is envisioned as a death or a transition. Rugh implies at times that the
Journal
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change – Taylor & Francis
Published: Sep 1, 2009