Anthony Lewis wrote many books, but one was significant for us in Florida. That book is ‘Gideon’s Trumpet’. ‘Gideon Trumpet’ tells the story of Clarence Gideon of Panama City and his battle in court that led to a change in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love this cover of the paperback! The balloon floating skyward and the figure of McGee free falling off the cover. It’s a bit of a risky cover in terms of selling the product and would never be done today.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To further celebrate Thank a Mailman Day, here’s a Florida book to read! Theodore Pratt wrote many books with Florida as a setting. With out a doubt the best of these was ‘The Barefoot Mailman’. The book chronicles a fictional[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This book answers long lost questions of Flagler’s Key West extension that other histories steer around. Bramson is always the one with the answers and, thank goodness, he’s created this volume to answer just how the extension was created, the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Florida Politics In The Gilded Age, 1877 1893 by Edward C. Williamson My rating: 4 of 5 stars A terrific and balanced study of Florida politics before 1877 and just after 1893. Unlike others I find slanted to the Democrat[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids by M. Timothy O’Keefe My rating: 5 of 5 stars Tim O’Keefe’s ‘Manatees: Our Vanishing Mermaids’ is an excellent overview of our Florida manatee. Covering history, food, reproduction, locations, etc. This is a simple over view.There[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four Centuries of Florida Ranching by George H. Dacy My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was published in 1940 before two significant happenings took place. One was World War II which led to the other, the Florida Legislature[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy And Business In Nineteenth Century America by Joseph A. Fry My rating: 4 of 5 stars A very thorough writing of the activities of Henry Sanford during his professional life. The book is broken up into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This undated postcard shows the Bahia Mar Yacht basin, the home of the famed Travis McGee. He lived at slip F-18 on the Busted Flush. John D. MacDonald created the hero of McGee and wrote 21 novels to tell his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Date with a Dead Man by Brett Halliday My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Brett Halliday” was really David Dresser. Dresser wrote teh series from 1938 to 1959. This is the first book after Dresser written by a ghost writer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s the July 4th, 1931 parade in Punta Gorda! Here comes the Coca Cola Bottling Works float! This is from ‘Our Fascinating Past – Charlotte Harbor: The Later Years’. This is a terrific book of the the history of this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
History of Brevard County Vol. 1 by Jerrell H. Schoffner My rating: 5 of 5 stars This first volume of the History of Brevard County is as excellent as one would suspect when written and composed by Jerrell Schofner. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…