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Publication Name
St. Martin's Press
ISBN
9781250185655

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250185653
ISBN-13
9781250185655
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Product Key Features

Book Title
Florida State Of Mind : an Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
James D. Wright
Format
Hardcover

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0.9 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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LCCN
2018-029233
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Reviews
"...humorous and inviting...Wright is an entertaining writer, and his observations on the peculiar state are witty and insightful." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal
975.9
Table Of Content
PART ONE: SOME BITS AND PIECES OF HISTORY 1. The Early History 2. The Twelfth Happiest State in the Nineteenth Happiest Country 3. Henry Flagler's Railroad 4. Green, Yellow, Checkered: Auto Racing Gets Its Start PART TWO: FLORIDA ECONOMICS: THE TRILLION-DOLLAR STATE 5. Theme-Park Nation: Florida's Tourist Economy 6. Orange Crush 7. Retirement Phantasmagoria: The Dissipation of Capital Accumulated Elsewhere 8. Florida's Beaches and Beach Culture 9. Fly Me to the Moon: The Florida Aerospace Industry PART THREE: PEOPLE AND POLITICS 10. The Three States of Florida: Cracker Culture, New Havana, and the I-4 Corridor 11. The Hanging Chad and Related Mysteries of Florida Politics 12. The Florida Hall of Fame and Shame PART FOUR: THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT THAT 13. Stormy Weather 14. Monkeys, Sharks, Bears, Gators, and Snakes 15. Roadkill 16. Invasive Species 17. Famous Foods of Florida 18. Some Speculations on Florida's Weirdness
Synopsis
A witty history of the state that's always in the news, for everything from alligator attacks to zany crimes. There's an old clip of Bugs Bunny sawing the entire state of Florida off the continent--and every single time a news story springs up about some shenanigans in Florida, someone on the internet posts it in response. Why are we so ready to wave goodbye to the Sunshine State? In A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State, James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and its sometimes-kooky, sometimes-terrifying denizens, but there's also plenty of room for hilarity. Florida didn't just become weird; it's built that way. Uncharted swampland doesn't easily give way to sprawling suburbia. It took violent colonization, land scams to trick non-Floridians into buying undeveloped property, and the development of railroads to benefit one man's hotel empire. Even the most natural parts of Florida are unnatural. Florida citrus? Not from here, but from China. Gators? Oh, they're from Florida all right, but that doesn't make having 1 per every 20 humans normal. Animals...in the form of roadkill? Only Florida allows you to keep anything you kill on the road ( and anything you find). Yet everyone loves Florida: tourists come in droves, and people relocate to Florida constantly (only 36% of residents were born there). Crammed with unforgettable stories and facts, Florida will show readers exactly why., You already know Florida is the weirdest state in the nation. But how did it get that way-and just how weird is it? James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and its sometimes-kooky, sometimes-terrifying denizens, but there's also plenty of room for hilarity. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
F311.W85 2019

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    21 Jun, 2021

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    Excellent book! Funny yet truthful. As a Floridian I approve

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