Paradise for sale
Subtitle: Florida's booms and busts
By: Nick Wynne and Richard Moorhead.
Contributors: Moorhead, Richard, 1943-
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781596298446
Subjects: Real estate development -- Florida -- History; Florida -- History, Local; Florida -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An American Eden; title: Priming the pump; title: World war primes the pump even more; title: The truth about Florida is a lie!; title: Going full bore : selling the boom; title: A city from wholecloth: Carl Graham Fisher; title: George Edgar Merrick; title: David P. Davis : the island maker; title: Addison Mizner; title: Lesser lights and smaller fry; title: Every little nook and cranny; title: Shut your damn mouth!; title: It is over!; title: Of bottom feeders and small bumps; title: A new war; "a new boom".