Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida
by Gary R. Mormino. Hardcover, 484 pgs, 52 black and white and 6 color photos, 4 maps. University Press of Florida, 2005.
 
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. Winner of the 2006 Charlton Tebeau Book Award and recognized as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 2007.

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FHC and WEDU-TV Tampa recently produced The Florida Dream, a one-hour documentary inspired by Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida.  Our "Florida Dream Gift Set" includes a signed book & DVD.  A great holiday gift!