Quirky Outdated Book #3,119

OK, so I pulled that number outa the air... but there are a lot of outdated books lurking in the library. Recreation in America, edited by Pauline Madow (H.W. Wilson, New York: 1965) is no exception.

It includes shocking facts:

"A Gallup poll in April 1959 found that only 21 per cent of adults questioned had read a book within the month"

support for non-standard leisure activities:

"There is much evidence that hot-rodding has involved boys of widely varying economic and social backgrounds; and there are indications that it is relaxedly interethnic."

and criticism of societal pressures:

"...the plain working stiff, who has a job without prestige, is better off than the more pretentious employee, for when he is at leisure his mind is free of the job. "

And it hasn't left the library in 9 years.