For Sale -- American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida

Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction in the Southwest

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 so...