Book Explores Engaged Participation in “American Fun”

The Clyde Fitch Report: As the anonymous, but wise, graffiti artist says, “Fun = Fun,” but not all fun is created equal. Celebrities having fun on TV, for example, is a certain kind of fun for those celebrities and a different kind of fun for the audience watching hermetically and passively at home. Neither of those kinds of fun, however, is the fun John Beckman explores in his fantastic recent book, American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt (Pantheon Books, 2014).