Action Park! Fast Times, Wild Rides, & the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park by Andy Mulvihill & Jake Rossen

Trade paperback format.  For those of you who have watched the HBO documentary or are just simply fascinated by Weird NJ, amusement parks, and/or human foibles, this is a great new addition to your reading list! “Citizen Kane does Adventureland.” —The Washington PostThe outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder’s son.Often called “Accident Park,” “Class Action Park,” or “Traction Park,” Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures–sometimes with tragic results. Though it closed its doors in 1996 after nearly twenty years, it has remained a subject of constant fascination ever s