T. D. Allman
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T. D. Allman is the author of Miami: City of the Future, which spent three years on the Miami Herald bestseller list, Rogue State, and other books. Born in Florida, he is both a former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal and an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations. He has reported näytä lisää form more than ninety countries. näytä vähemmän
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An American Tragedy 1 kappale
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These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Avustaja — 91 kappaletta
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Some of the highlights for me were:
1) The origins of the myth of Ponce de Leon and De Soto. I remember my school books preaching the myth. Allman's book debunks almost everything we learned
2) The way that Florida became part of the USA is very similar to the strategy used by Russia to take over the Crimea. Although the school books teach that Florida was eventually purchased, somebody failed to get a receipt for the purchase. Allman claims that Florida was never purchased.
3) The role of Florida in the Civil War where large parts of the state were permanently occupied by Union troops. One of the few Civil War battles fought in the state was less than decisive for the southern troops because they were too busy massacaring black Union soliders.
4) Reading the White Supremicist backgrounds of the families for which Florida cities and counties were named for. For example, Gainesville was named for a general responsible for the death of hundreds of peaceful black and Seminole settlers in northern Florida. Broward county was named after somebody who wanted to send all blacks out of the state and one of the Brevards was responsible for numerous racist myths that went into the Florida textbooks.
One of the Florida newspapers performed a fact-check of the book when it first came out and only raised minor issues of facts.… (lisätietoja)