{"product_id":"dreams-in-the-new-century-instant-cities-shattered-hopes-and-floridas-turning-point-9780813069340","title":"Dreams in the New Century: Instant Cities, Shattered Hopes, and Florida's Turning Point","description":"\u003cb\u003eFlorida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlorida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA leading Florida historian explores one of the state's most consequential eras\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a time of stunning episodes of boom and\u003cbr\u003ebust, an era of extremes, a decade of historic changes that point to Florida's\u003cbr\u003efuture. In this book, eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early\u003cbr\u003etwenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most\u003cbr\u003esignificant events in contemporary American history.\u003cbr\u003eFollowing Mormino's milestone work \u003ci\u003eLand of\u003cbr\u003eSunshine, State of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, which details the dynamic history of\u003cbr\u003eFlorida from 1950 to 2000, \u003ci\u003eDreams in the New Century\u003c\/i\u003e explores the state's tumultuous next chapter, a period that included the Bush\u003cbr\u003ev. Gore election, 9\/11, the housing bubble and Great Recession, and the\u003cbr\u003eelection of Barack Obama. During these years the Elián González story engrossed\u003cbr\u003ethe country, Tim Tebow rose to football fame, and Donald Trump became a Florida\u003cbr\u003ecelebrity. From hurricanes to Ponzi schemes, red tides, climate change, the \"Stand-Your-Ground\" gun law, demographic diversity, and more, Florida offered\u003cbr\u003enonstop news fodder that reflected its extraordinary internal trends and its\u003cbr\u003eimportance in the nation.\u003cbr\u003eAs Mormino shows, Florida is a place of\u003cbr\u003edeep conflicts--North and South, liberal and conservative, newcomer and local, \u003cbr\u003egrowth and conservation--with histories that can be traced back centuries. In\u003cbr\u003e2000‒2010, Mormino argues, these tensions collided to produce a \"Big Bang\" that\u003cbr\u003ewill continue to resonate in years to come. Mormino takes stock of this\u003cbr\u003ecrucible of change and explains the social, cultural, and political intricacies\u003cbr\u003eof a state the world struggles to understand. \u003ci\u003eDreams in the New\u003cbr\u003eCentury\u003c\/i\u003e unravels Florida's complicated recent history in a gripping, \u003cbr\u003einformative, and fascinating narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMormino, Gary R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eGary\u003cbr\u003eR. Mormino\u003c\/b\u003e is the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History Emeritus at\u003cbr\u003ethe University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the winner of the Florida\u003cbr\u003eHumanities 2015 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and serves as Florida\u003cbr\u003eHumanities scholar in residence. His many books include \u003ci\u003eLand of\u003cbr\u003eSunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181805633810,"sku":"9780813069340","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18921b52-7130-42cb-b68a-c53d6ba1d059.jpg?v=1744403583","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dreams-in-the-new-century-instant-cities-shattered-hopes-and-floridas-turning-point-9780813069340","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}