Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556094256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Florida and Other State Greats (Biographies)
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556094256
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Missouri and Other State Greats (Biographies)
Author: Carole MarshPublisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 1556097492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams
Author: Gary R MorminoPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813047048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular: space coast, climate control, growth management, retirement community, theme park, edge cities, shopping mall, boomburbs, beach renourishment, Interstate, and Internet. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation. Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt.
Marino
Author: The Miami HeraldPublisher: Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 9781572437913
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dan Marino’s NFL legacy is simple enough: he turned football’s record book into his autobiography. Inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, he is undoubtedly one of the most prolific quarterbacks who ever played. This biography follows his career in words and pictures, from his boyhood in Pittsburgh to his sudden stardom as an NFL sophomore in 1984, when he rewrote pro football record books with 48 touchdowns and 5,084 passing yards. His accomplishments both on and off the field are told by the best sportswriters in the business, including Edwin Pope, Dan LeBatard, and Greg Cote, to name but a few.
Blind But Now I See
Author: Kent GustavsonPublisher: Blooming Twig Books
ISBN: 193391887X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Cyclopedia of American Biography
Author: James Edward HomansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1326
Book Description
The Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
Webb's Historical, Industrial and Biographical Florida
Author: Wanton S. WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Duval County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Descriptions of communities and businesses in Florida in 1885. Also lists names of residents during the period.
A Biographical History, with Portraits, of Prominent Men of the Great West. .
Author: John A. CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography
Author: James Grant WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description