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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the SouthwestThe story of how Florida became entwined with Americans twentieth-century hopes, dreams, and expectations is also a tale of mass delusion, real estate collapses, and catastrophic hurricanes. For Sale--American Paradise hones in on the experiences of American icon William Jennings Bryan, journalist Edwin Menninger, and others who shaped the image of Florida that we know today and who sold that image as Americas paradise. The cast also includes the Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, Al Capone, a pack of backwoods bandits known as the Ashley Gang, and the visionaries and businessmen who poured their dreams and their cash into Florida in the roaring, raucous 1920s.A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full displaya Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called the orgiastic futurethe book reveals how the 2008 collapse of Florida real estate was eerily similar to events that happened there in the 1920s What sets the mid-1920s Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications, and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are entitlements that are simply there for the taking.Floridas image as a place where the rules of everyday life dont apply and winners go to play was formed during this dawn of the age of consumerism when Americans wanted to have fun and make lots of money, and millions of them thought Florida was the perfect place to do that. 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 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780762794683
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Book Description Condition: New. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 463. . 2015. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780762794683
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