Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State - Tapa blanda

Allman, T D

 
9780802122308: Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State
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ISBN 10: 0802122302 ISBN 13: 9780802122308
Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Sinopsis

Longlisted for the National Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

Over the centuries, Florida has been many things: an unconquered realm protected by geography, a wilderness that ruined Spanish conquistadors, gods waiting room, and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today its home to nineteen million. The site of vicious racial violence, including massacres, slavery, and the roll-back of Reconstruction, Florida is now one of our most diverse states, a dynamic multicultural place with an essential role in 21st-century America.

In Finding Florida, journalist T.D. Allman reclaims the remarkable history of Florida from the states mythologizers, apologists, and boosters. Allman traces the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida, its transformation from a swamp to paradise. Palm Beach, Key West, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando boomed, fortunes were won and lost, land was stolen and flipped, and millions arrived. The product of a decade of research and writing, Finding Florida is a highly original, stylish, and masterful work, the first modern comprehensive history of this fascinating place.

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Acerca del autor

T.D. Allman is the author of Miami: City of the Future, and Rogue State: America at War with the World. A native Floridian, Harvard graduate, and former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, Allman was for many years the foreign correspondent ofVanity Fair, and is credited with uncovering the CIA's "secret war" (a phrase he coined) in Laos. He has written about Florida forEsquire and National Geographic, and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Le Monde, andThe Economist, among other publications. He divides his time between Miami, New York, and the south of France.

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Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802122302
ISBN 13 
9780802122308
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
544
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