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| Author | : T. D. Allman |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0802120768 |
Offers a comprehensive look at the history of the state of Florida, from its discovery, exploration, and settlement through its becoming a state, to notable events in the early twenty-first century.
| Author | : Sarah Gerard |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2017-04-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 0062434888 |
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay • Finalist for the Southern Book Prize A New York Times Critics’ Best Books of the Year • An NPR Best Book of the Year • A NYLON Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Buzzfeed Best Nonfiction Book of the Year • An Entrophy Magazine Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Brooklyn Rail Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year • A Baltimore Beat Best Book of the Year A Paris Review Staff Pick • A Chicago Tribune Exciting Book for 2017 • A Rolling Stone Culture Index Reccomendation • A Buzzfeed Most Exciting Book for 2017 • A The Millions Great 2017 Book Preview Pick • A Huffington Post 2017 Preview Pick • A NYLON Best 10 Books of the Month • A Lit Hub 15 Books to Read This Month A Poets & Writers New and Noteworth Selection • A PW Top 10 Spring Pick in Essays & Literary Criticism • An Emma Straub Reccomendation on PBS “One of the themes of ‘Sunshine State,’ Sarah Gerard’s striking book of essays, is how Florida can unmoor you and make you reach for shoddy, off-the-shelf solutions to your psychic unease…. The first essay is a knockout, a lurid red heart wrapped in barbed wire.... This essay draws blood.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times "Unflinchingly candid memoir bolstered by thoughtfully researched history…. A nuanced and subtly intimate mosaic… her writing, lucid yet atmospheric, takes on a timeless ebb and flow.” — Jason Heller, NPR.org "Stunning." — Rolling Stone “These large-hearted, meticulous essays offer an uncanny x-ray of our national psyche... showing us both the grand beauty of our American dreams and the heartbreaking devastation they wreak.” — Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You Sarah Gerard follows her breakout novel, Binary Star, with the dynamic essay collection Sunshine State, which explores Florida as a microcosm of the most pressing economic and environmental perils haunting our society. In the collection’s title essay, Gerard volunteers at the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, a world renowned bird refuge. There she meets its founder, who once modeled with a pelican on his arm for a Dewar’s Scotch campaign but has since declined into a pit of fraud and madness. He becomes our embezzling protagonist whose tales about the birds he “rescues” never quite add up. Gerard’s personal stories are no less eerie or poignant: An essay that begins as a look at Gerard’s first relationship becomes a heart-wrenching exploration of acquaintance rape and consent. An account of intimate female friendship pivots midway through, morphing into a meditation on jealousy and class. With the personal insight of The Empathy Exams, the societal exposal of Nickel and Dimed, and the stylistic innovation and intensity of her own break-out debut novel Binary Star, Sarah Gerard’s Sunshine State uses the intimately personal to unearth the deep reservoirs of humanity buried in the corners of our world often hardest to face.
| Author | : Gary R Mormino |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2008-09-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0813047048 |
Florida is a story of astonishing growth, a state swelling from 500,000 residents at the outset of the 20th century to some 16 million at the end. As recently as mid-century, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Florida was the smallest state in the South. At the dawn of the millennium, it is the fourth largest in the country, a megastate that was among those introducing new words into the American vernacular: space coast, climate control, growth management, retirement community, theme park, edge cities, shopping mall, boomburbs, beach renourishment, Interstate, and Internet. Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams attempts to understand the firestorm of change that erupted into modern Florida by examining the great social, cultural, and economic forces driving its transformation. Gary Mormino ranges far and wide across the landscape and boundaries of a place that is at once America's southernmost state and the northernmost outpost of the Caribbean. From the capital, Tallahassee--a day's walk from the Georgia border--to Miami--a city distant but tantalizingly close to Cuba and Haiti--Mormino traces the themes of Florida's transformation: the echoes of old Dixie and a vanishing Florida; land booms and tourist empires; revolutions in agriculture, technology, and demographics; the seductions of the beach and the dynamics of a graying population; and the enduring but changing meanings of a dreamstate. Beneath the iconography of popular culture is revealed a complex and complicated social framework that reflects a dizzying passage from New Spain to Old South, New South to Sunbelt.
| Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Reorganization, Research, and International Organizations |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Executive departments |
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| Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations Committee |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1974 |
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| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 1974 |
| Genre | : Executive departments |
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| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 590 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Executive departments |
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| Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 588 |
| Release | : 1975 |
| Genre | : Executive departments |
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| Author | : Richard K. Berg |
| Publisher | : American Bar Association |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9781590315842 |
This updated edition reexamines the Sunshine Act since it was originally signed in 1977. The authors have analyzed more than 150 court decisions that have interpreted or mentioned the Act, and have reviewed the legal literature over the past 28 years.
| Author | : Seth C. McKee |
| Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2015-08-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0813055318 |
Redrawing district lines is arguably the most polarizing of political activities in the United States today. As technological developments permit more and more sophisticated statistical analyses, those in charge of the process are more tempted to gerrymander districts for their own future benefit. At the same time, as this data is made available to the public, litigation and calls for transparency intensify. As a bellwether state, Florida offers a unique and fascinating case study to examine the various effects of redistricting. The contributors to this volume examine the issue from the perspectives of both politicians and voters, exploring the process of redistricting as well as the homogenization of districts. They examine new and ongoing controversies, including the creation of disparate pockets of opponents’ voting blocs, by focusing on the massive 2012 boundary changes throughout the state--and the judicial review that called into question their legality on the eve of the 2014 elections.
