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"""Sheds new light on the development of Florida tourism.""--Choice ""Nelson expertly examines how debates about Florida's identity during the New Deal era paved the way for the creation of Florida's modern tourist industry.""--Journal of Southern History ""Nelson makes a convincing argument that this time period was the foundation for establishing Florida as a tourist destination.""--H-Net ""Blending rich archival bureaucratic reports with personal stories and connections to the land and work of building the parks, Nelson intimately connects the personal and the political between state park work, tourism, and survival during the Great Depression.""--Environmental History"

""Sheds new light on the development of Florida tourism.""--Choice ""Nelson expertly examines how debates about Florida's identity during the New Deal era paved the way for the creation of Florida's modern tourist industry.""--Journal of Southern History ""Nelson makes a convincing argument that this time period was the foundation for establishing Florida as a tourist destination.""--H-Net ""Blending rich archival bureaucratic reports with personal stories and connections to the land and work of building the parks, Nelson intimately connects the personal and the political between state park work, tourism, and survival during the Great Depression.""--Environmental History

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David J. Nelson is professor of history at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at Bainbridge

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