Miami
City of the Future, Revised Edition
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Publisher Description
With trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami's people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. In doing so he lays out a portrait of the profound changes overtaking American life everywhere. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition remains a classic guide to a city teeming with money, exotic cargo, illegal drugs, and immigrants from all corners of the globe. As readers of this long-time bestseller have always appreciated, this also is a prophetic book--describing an emerging new America that, today, is all around us, whatever city or suburb or gated community we call home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Allman (Unmanifest Destiny brings a glowing ambience to his multifaceted treatment of Miamiclearly because he is enamored of the city's growth in our own time to become a metropolis teeming with complexities and contradictions, a "melting pot'' thrown open by the Cuban tidal wave of recent years. A journalist with outstanding narrative skill, Allman traces Miami's growth from the time of Julia Tuttle and Henry Flagler through its real-estate boom (and bust) of the 1920s to the ``new Casablanca'' image its rampant drug-trade and political turmoil have given it in the 1980s. Colorful anecdotes abound, and readers will enjoy Allman's many revealing sidelights and personal profiles as he proposes, with delicious irony, a monument to JFK and Fidel Castro as ``co-founders'' of this new Miracle City.
