Fool's paradise : players, poseurs, and the culture of excess in South Beach / Steven Gaines.
Fool's paradise : players, poseurs, and the culture of excess in South Beach / Steven Gaines.
By
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Gaines, Steven S.
Publication Date
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2009
Publication Information
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New York : Crown Publishers,
Edition
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1st ed.
Physical Description
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274 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Upper class -- Florida -- Miami Beach.
Celebrities -- Florida -- Miami Beach.
Geographic Term
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South Beach (Miami Beach, Fla.) -- Social life and customs.
Miami Beach (Fla.) -- Social life and customs.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-263) and index.
Summary
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"Fool's Paradise" is more than just a present-day profile of a dark Eden. Gaines journeys back into the city's social and cultural history, unearthing stories of the resort's past that are every bit as absorbing-and jaw-dropping-as those of its present. The book begins with a snapshot of the city's current excess (this is, after all, a sun-washed hamlet that boasts, on a per capita basis, more bars-and breast implants-than any other place in America), then plunges into the Beach's origins, chronicling the audacious rise of such hoteliers as the Fontainebleau's Ben Novack and the Eden Roc's Harry Mufson, the sharp-elbowed tactics of Al Capone and Frank Sinatra, and the Mac-10 shooting sprees of the Marielito and Colombian drug lords.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780307346278
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Cow Head (WCH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 975.938 G12 | Checked In |