Florida's Past, Vol 1: People and Events That Shaped the State

by Gene Burnett

Overview

Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. This first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence.

Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561641154
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	06/01/1996
Series:	Florida's Past , #1
Pages:	280
Sales rank:	1,033,671
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Gene Burnett was raised in Tampa and educated in Tallahassee at Florida State University. He served as a reporter and editor with a number of newspapers throughout the state—ranging in size from a small country weekly to the Miami Herald—and was also a freelance writer for many Florida magazines.

Editorial Reviews

""Skillful writing, thorough research, and a keen sense of what is of historical consequence.""

"Skillful writing, thorough research, and a keen sense of what is of historical consequence."

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