Hel (Livros) Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and
How It Brought on the Great Depression
By Christopher Knowlton
Christopher Knowlton, author of Cattle Kingdom and former Fortune writer, takes an
in-depth look at the spectacular Florida land boom of the 1920s and shows how it led
directly to the Great Depression.The 1920s in Florida was a time of incredible excess,
immense wealth, and precipitous collapse. It was the largest human migration in
American history, far exceeding the settlement of the West. It spawned the suburbs
as we know them and the first large-scale assault on the environment in the name of
?progress.? Thousands flocked to the grand hotels and new cities rose rapidly from
the teeming wetlands. Nowhere was the glitz and excess of the Roaring Twenties
more blatant than in Florida. It was Vegas before there was Vegas; gambling was legal
and so was drinking (prohibition was not enforced). Tycoons and celebrities flocked
to this new frontier. Yet, the import and deep impact of this historical moment has
never been explored thoroughly until now.In Bubble in the Sun Christopher
