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Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and Other Florida Wildlife
University Press of Florida
September 2006
On Sale: September 8, 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 0813030366
EAN: 9780813030364
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Non-Fiction
Part family memoir, part political commentary, part
apologia, Dream State tells the grand and sometimes crazy
story of Florida through the eyes of one of its native
daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR commentator Diane
Roberts has many family secrets to tell. Roberts’s ancestors
helped settle Florida, kill off its pesky Indians, enslave
some of its inhabitants, clear its forests, lay its train
tracks, and pave its roads, all the time weaving themselves
into the very fabric of the state.
With a storyteller’s talent for setting great scenes,
Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight generations
of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers and Robertses. From
Florida’s first inhabitants to those involved in the recent
past with the botched presidential election of 2000, Roberts
renders them all with a deep, familial affection. While
exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore
Leonard have been fictionalizing for years, Dream State
ultimately reveals the cogs and wheels that make the state tick.
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