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American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida

12/07/15 - Florida’s development history is steeped in mass delusion, real estate collapse and catastrophic hurricanes. 

And a lax attitude about prohibition didn’t hurt. Monday’s Topical Currents is with distinguished historian WillieDrye. His latest book on the Sunshine State is FOR SALE, AMERICAN PARADISE: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida.That’s Topical Currents . . . Monday at 1pm.

 

Gems from Cocoanuts, Irving Berlin songs in Marx Brothers show Victor 35769 (1926) Billy Murray:

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