Oh, Florida!

Craig Pittman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2016
St Martin's Press (Verlag)
978-1-250-07120-0 (ISBN)

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Oh, Florida! Explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting state. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird and why that's okay. Oh, Florida! Explains how Florida secretly, subtly influences all the other states in the Union, both for good and for ill.

To outsiders, Florida seems baffling. It's a state where the voters went for Barack Obama twice, yet elected a Tea Party candidate as governor. Florida is touted as a care-free paradise, yet it's also known for its perils - alligators, sinkholes, pythons, hurricanes, and sharks, to name a few. lt attracts 90 million visitors a year, some drawn by its impressive natural beauty, others bewitched by its man-made fantasies. Oh, Florida! Explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting state. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird and why that's okay. Florida couldn't be Florida without that sense of the unpredictable, unexpected, and unusual lurking behind every palm tree. But there is far more to Florida than its sideshow freakiness. Oh, Florida! Explains how Florida secretly, subtly influences all the other states in the Union, both for good and for ill.

Craig Pittman is an award-winning journalist and the author of three previous books. He is a native Floridian and in 2013 wrote a popular blog for Slate called "Oh, Florida! " which became the genesis for this book, and which led to his appearance on TV and radio discussing why Florida is so odd and entertaining. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife and two children.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2016
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 242 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-250-07120-8 / 1250071208
ISBN-13	978-1-250-07120-0 / 9781250071200
Zustand	Neuware