For Sale American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida by Willie Drye
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Overview: The 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 America s 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 display a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called the orgiastic future the book reveals how the 2008 collapse of Florida real estate was eerily similar to events that happened there in the 1920s.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Florida
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