Up for Grabs: A Trip Through Time and Space in the Sunshine State

by John Rothchild

Book Overview

A wandering Floridian who made his way home in the early 1970s, John Rothchild writes about the state with the savvy of a native and the perspective of an outsider. His personal and historical travelogue reads alternately like a litany of 20th-century ills and a Monty Python rendering of the Great American Dream. In Florida, both versions are true. Settled through the chicanery of a few enterprising brokers and real estate wizards, Rothchild's Florida...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813018293
• ISBN13: 9780813018294
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

John Rocks Florida History

John knows and shares inside stories of Florida. You will enjoy this book. Buy it!