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Oh, Florida!

Autor Craig Pittman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2017

A New York Times Bestseller

To some people, Florida is a paradise; to others, a punch line. As Oh, Florida shows, it's both of these and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground," ...You get the idea.

To outsiders, Florida seems baffling. It's a state where the voters went for Barack Obama twice, yet elected a Tea Party candidate as governor. Florida is touted as a carefree paradise, yet it's also known for its perils--alligators, sinkholes, pythons, hurricanes, and sharks, to name a few. It attracts 90 million visitors a year, some drawn by its impressive natural beauty, others bewitched by its manmade fantasies.

Oh, Florida explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting state. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird--and why that's okay. But there is far more to Florida than its sideshow freakiness. Oh, Florida explains how Florida secretly, subtly influences all the other states in the Union, both for good and for ill.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250143648
ISBN-10: 1250143640
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 210 x 141 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MELIA PUBLISHING SERVICES LTD

Notă biografică

Craig Pittman

Cuprins

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Punch Line State

1. Growing Up Floridian
2. Flirting with Disaster
3. Getting Stucco
4. Trading Gators for Beer
5. On the Beach
6. Road Warriors
7. The Tower of Power
8. The Gunshine State
9. Bad Boys
10. God's Waiting Room
11. Schoolhouse Rock
12. You Bet Your Life
13. Space Invaders
14. See You in the Funny Papers
15. The Sinshine State
16. Confederacy of Dunces
17. The Friends of Emma Jones
18. A Whole New You

Epilogue: The Unified Theory of Florida
Afterword to the 2017 Edition
Select Bibliography
Index 317

The notes for the material cited in this book are available at the book's website, www.oh-florida.com.