Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modem Florida.(Book review)

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modem Florida. By Gary R. Mormino (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvii plus 457 pp. $34.95).

Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams is the thirty-sixth monograph published in The Florida History and Culture Series, which is edited by Raymond Arsenault and Gary Mormino. Earlier volumes focused on places (titles include The Ever-glades, Casadaga, Miami, Jacksonville, and The Florida Resort Hotels), politics (Claude Pepper and Ed Ball; Government in the Sunshine State: Florida since Statehood; and ...

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