Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
Categories: Business & Money, History
Christopher Knowlton's history of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, when speculation in swampland and seaside lots made and lost fortunes almost overnight. He follows developers such as Carl Fisher, George Merrick and Addison Mizner, building on the railroad and hotels of Henry Flagler, and shows how the collapse of the boom and the 1926 hurricane foreshadowed the national crash of 1929.
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