Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.
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Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.
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Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition

Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition

by T. D. Allman
Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition

Miami: City of the Future, Revised Edition

by T. D. Allman

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With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813047515
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Publication date: 09/03/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 420
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
T. D. Allman (1944-2024) was a journalist whose work appeared in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Harper’s, Reader’s Digest, and National Geographic, among many other publications. His books include Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State.

Table of Contents

Foreword: From Pariah to Paradigm ix

Prologue: An Aleph of a Metropolis 3

Part I "Miami Vice"

1 Prime Time 21

2 In the Pink 41

3 Stayin' Alive 57

4 Sonny Crockett and the Suniland Shoot-Out 86

Part II City of the Future

5 Golems 111

6 Cardboard Waves 129

7 Elsewhere Destinies 155

8 Oolite 172

9 Circumspice 185

10 The City of Tomorrow 211

11 The Mouse, the Moon and the Toilet Seat 239

Part III The Americanization of Miami

12 The Shark in the Water 265

13 Years of Destiny 276

14 Fantasy's Child 303

15 The Americanization of Rosario 322

16 Only in America 341

Epilogue: Good-bye Miami 370

Afterword: The Miamiazation of America 391

Acknowledgments 399

Notes 401

Index 421

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