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Allman, T.D. Finding Florida: The True History Of The Sunshine State 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035925. ISBN #0802120768 / 9780802120762. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Allman, T.D. Finding Florida: The True History Of The Sunshine State 2013 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1035925. ISBN #0802120768 / 9780802120762. (filed under: Florida ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 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, god s waiting room, and a place to start over. Depopulated after the extermination of its original native population, today it s 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 state s 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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Brown, Loren G. "Totch" Totch: A Life in the Everglades University Press of Florida 1993 Trade Paperback. light shelf wear. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or632027. ISBN #0813012287 / 9780813012285. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Frantz, Douglas; Collins, Catherine Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1010753. ISBN #0805055606 / 9780805055603. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Frantz, Douglas; Collins, Catherine Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1010753. ISBN #0805055606 / 9780805055603. (filed under: Florida ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary A prize-winning reporter, his wife, and their two kids describe life in Disney's vision of the future. In 1997, six months after the first residents had moved into Celebration, Florida-Disney's town of the future with its distinctly retro link to a longed-for past-Doug and Cathy and their two kids closed on their new home and settled down to participate in and observe this new venture. Their report from the trenches will surprise both Disney haters and Disney fans. What is it like to start a new community-not a suburb or subdivision, but a town, inted to be a self-supporting community with the best of the new technologies including the very latest in teaching techniques and the most cherished elements in American towns that existed before the automobile turned everything into a mall? For almost two years the family lived this experiment firsthand. Their report is vivid, funny, and painful-and it tells us as much about ourselves and our hopes and dreams as it does about the daily reality of building a community from the ground up.
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Kessler, Ronald Season: Inside Palm Beach And America's Richest Society 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085181. ISBN #0060193913 / 9780060193911. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Kessler, Ronald Season: Inside Palm Beach And America's Richest Society 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1085181. ISBN #0060193913 / 9780060193911. (filed under: Florida ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous personal security staffs, and screens of tall hedges encircling every mansion. To this bizarre suspicious, exclusive world, New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler brought his charm, insight, and award-winning investigative skills, and came to know Palm Beach, its celebrated and powerful residents, and its exotic social rituals as no outside writer ever has. In this colorful, entertaining, and compulsively readable book. Kessler reveals the inside story of Palm Beach society as it moves languidly through the summer months, quickens in the fall, and shifts into frenetic high speed as the season begins in December, peaks in January and February, and continues into April. When unimaginable wealth combines with unlimited leisure time oil an island barely three times the size of New York's Central Park, human foibles and desires, lust and greed, passion and avarice, become magnified and intensified. Like laboratory rats fed growth hormones, the 9,800 Palm Beach residents--87 percent of whom are millionaires--exhibit the most outlandish extremes of their breed. To tell the story, Kessler follows four Palm Beachers through the season. These four characters--the reigning queen of Palm Beach society, the night manager of Palm Beach's trendiest bar, a gay "walker" who escorts wealthy women to balls, and a thirty--six-year-old gorgeous blonde who says she "can't find a guy in Palm Beach"--know practically everyone on the island and tell what goes on behind the scenes. Interweaving the yarns of these unfor-gettable figures with the lifestyle, history, scandals, lore, and rituals of a unique island of excess, The Season creates a powerful, seamless, juicy narrative that no novelist could dream up.
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Leamer, Laurence Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach Hachette Books 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or953344. ISBN #1401322913 / 9781401322915. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Leamer, Laurence Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach Hachette Books 2009 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or953344. ISBN #1401322913 / 9781401322915. (filed under: Florida ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme has devastated the eternally sunny world of Palm Beach, bringing down multimillionaires and destroying once wealthy widows. At the center of the scandal is the isolated, insulated winter home of the mega wealthy. Suddenly, everyone in America is talking about the South Florida island and the rarified life so apart from the rest of America. Everyone wants to know what are the deepest truths of this strange, exotic universe of wealth and privilege. In Madness Under the Royal Palms , Laurence Leamer has the answers. It took him fifteen years to get them, and to expose the inner life and drama of the wealthy as it has never been exposed before. It is an often shocking, scandalous book that will forever change not only the way Palm Beach is viewed but the life of wealth and privilege in America. Leave it to Leamer, the bestselling author known for getting the inside story on his elusive subjects, to take us behind the walls of America s most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege. In Madness , Leamer tells a braided story involving a socialite determined to make it to the top of Palm Beach society, two infamous murders, and a powerful society reporter. As a backdrop, Leamer tells the story of the clash between old money and new, religion and status, and the love, lust, and fatal hatreds that determine the shape of a fiercely protected society. The cast of characters include trophy wives, trophy husbands, purported gigolos, glamorous widows, a pioneering gay couple, a wildly irreverent event planner, a sociopathic multimillionaire, and an elegant society queen. For a hundred years Palm Beach has been a fantasy land nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy. In the end, Leamer s tale of money, murder and mad pretension reveals a darker strain. Uncovering that strain, as the author himself writes, turned into as fascinating, in some cases as shocking, and always as unexpected a journey as I have ever taken.
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McGovern, James R. (Editor) Colonial Pensacola paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1001313. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Waterbury, Jean Parker (Editor) Oldest City: St. Augustine Saga Of Survival Saint Augustine Historical Society 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or864592. ISBN #0961274409 / 9780961274405. (filed under: Florida ) *
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Waterbury, Jean Parker (Editor) Oldest City: St. Augustine Saga Of Survival Saint Augustine Historical Society 1983 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or864592. ISBN #0961274409 / 9780961274405. (filed under: Florida ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Waterbury, Jean Parker Editor ., St. Augustine Historical Society FL , 2004, c1983, reprint, illus. soft cover trade size paperback , fine as new , 265 pp with sources index, extensive B W photographic other illus., 8vo, ISBN: 0961274409, 'Four cultures over more than four centuries contribute to the history of St. Augustine', George E. Buker, Amy Bushnell, Thomas Graham et al., Local History; St. Augustine, Florida
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Wright, J. Leitch , Jr. Florida in The American Revolution University Presses Of Florida 1989 hardcover. Previous owners embossed name stamp.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or780516. ISBN #0813005248 / 9780813005249. (filed under: Florida ) *
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