The swamp peddlers : how lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream / Jason Vuic.
| Author/creator |
Vuic, Jason, 1972- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] |
| Description | 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Abstract | "Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. As Jason Vuic recounts in this raucous history, these communities allowed generations of northerners to move to Florida cheaply, but at a price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; developers cleared forests, drained wetlands, and built thousands of miles of roads in grid-like subdivisions, which, fifty years later, played an inordinate role in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2020051337 |
| ISBN | 9781469663159 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1469663155 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9781469663333 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1469663333 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | HD266 .F6 V85 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |