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Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
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Author:
Christopher Knowlton
Publisher:
Simon Schuster
Date:
January 14, 2020
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led directly to the Great Depression.
What The Reviewers Say
It is difficult to go wrong when writing of questionable behavior and wretched excess in Florida, a fact that is borne out yet again in Christopher Knowlton’s colorful Bubble in the Sun, a wide-ranging treatment of the ill-fated South Florida land boom of the 1920s.
... does not remotely make the case that the Florida land boom of the 1920s 'brought on the Great Depression.' (Knowlton, in fact, effectively disavows the assertion himself, so I’ll blame an overweening publisher for the misleading subtitle.) But the book does offer a story that, though often told before, is worth the spirited retelling Knowlton brings to it.
Carl Hiaasen could have cooked up Knowlton’s cast of characters.
... a lively and entertaining chronicle of the visionaries, rascals and hucksters who transformed Florida.
