Oh, Florida!: How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01M3XRJ2H |
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| Number of Pages | : | 289 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jacquelyn J. Caccia said Oh Florida, indeed!. If you live in Florida, you need to read this. If you want to live in Florida, you should read this. If you are looking for any excuse to not live in Florida, or even visit it it, you must read this. It was well written, interesting, educational and funny.. "ALL ABOUT AND AROUND FLORIDA" according to josephine briggs. This book is a fun read but containing many serious events that occurred, some not too many years ago, others recent, some many years ago. Mr. Pittman, a native Floridian as is his wife and kids, covers his state from the pan handle to Key West. He writes from today to yesterday I ordered this book because I lived in Florida for nineteen years. Two of my children were born in Florida. I have traveled all over the state and go back every year to visit. Key West seems not to be in the United States, but in a foreign country. Traveling down the ke. You have to read this book Amazon Customer I am a native Floridian and bought this book as soon as it was published. It is a wonderfully written, hilarious, truthful narrative of Florida and its people. I was laughing out loud over and over and read the entire book this weekend. Craig Pittman captures the irony, diversity, and bizarre stories of America's bellweather state. Great reading for anyone !
It's a state where the voters went for Barack Obama twice yet elected a Tea Party candidate as governor. It attracts 90 million visitors a year, some drawn by its impressive natural beauty, others bewitched by its man-made fantasies. Florida couldn't be Florida without that sense of the unpredictable, unexpected, and unusual lurking behind every palm tree. It is the first book to explore the reasons why Florida is so wild and weird - and why that's okay. As Oh, Florida! shows, it's both of these, and, more important, it's a Petri dish, producing trends that end up influencing the rest of the country. Without Florida there would be no NASCAR, no Bettie Page pinups, no Glenn Beck radio rants, no USA Today, no "Stand Your Ground" - you get the idea. To others it's a punch line. To outsiders Florida seems baffling. Oh, Florida! explores those contradictions and shows how they fit together to make this the most interesting