"Eminent historian Gary Mormino illuminates early twenty-first-century Florida and its connections to some of the most significant events in contemporary American history, taking stock of a tumultuous decade of change and explaining the state's social, cultural, and political intricacies"--

Gary
R. Mormino is the Frank E. Duckwall Professor of History Emeritus at
the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. He is the winner of the Florida
Humanities 2015 Florida Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and serves as Florida
Humanities scholar in residence. His many books include Land of
Sunshine, State of Dreams: A Social History of Modern Florida.