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

Informationen zum Autor By Willie Drye Klappentext Silver Medal Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southeast The story of how Florida became entwined with Americans' 20th-century hopes, dreams and expectations, and how it was the site of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale--American Paradise focuses on the expe

Product details

• Authors: Willie Drye, Drye Willie
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2015
• EAN: 9780762794683
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-9468-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Marx Brothers, Florida, Mark Twain, Southwest, American History, Hurricane, American Dream, Jazz Age, Al Capone, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Real Estate, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Thomas Edison, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Consumerism, 1920s, Devil in the White City, florida lifestyle, American Paradise, Edwin Menninger, post world war 1, Ashley Gang, America's paradise, 2008 collapse, William Jennings Bryan, modern America, human greed, Entitlement, subterfuge