For Sale - American Paradise How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida

Name: For Sale - American Paradise How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida
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ISBN: 9781493018994

ISBN-10: 149301899X

ISBN-13: 9781493018994

Edition: N/A

Authors: Willie Drye

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The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans 20th-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. The Fantasy of Florida hones in on the experiences of William Jennings Bryan and Edwin Menninger, the two men who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as America s paradise. The cast of characters also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, and Mark Twain. A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called the…

Book details

Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 312
Language: English