Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine (e-bog) af Graham, Thomas
Graham, Thomas (forfatter)

Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine e-bog

619,55 DKK (inkl. moms 774,44 DKK)
Florida Book Awards, BronzeMedal for Florida NonfictionFlorida Historical SocietyCharlton Tebeau Book AwardArguably no man did more to make over a cityor a statethan Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of Americas elite.Mr. Flaglers St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest me...
E-bog 619,55 DKK
Forfattere Graham, Thomas (forfatter)
Udgivet 29 april 2014
Længde 640 sider
Genrer 1KBBFL
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780813048963
Florida Book Awards, BronzeMedal for Florida NonfictionFlorida Historical SocietyCharlton Tebeau Book AwardArguably no man did more to make over a cityor a statethan Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of Americas elite.Mr. Flaglers St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the countrys Oldest City into the Newport of the South. He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise.In tracing Flaglers life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers.Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.