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Title: The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Florida
Review: This is a superb book, fusing political and personal history, official culture and its trashy underside to evoke a state that always manages to be more bizarre and more banal than you thought it was. Among much else, this is the best thing I've read about the great election scandal, and it's right on the nail about alligators, oranges and Miami Vice too. A deeply necessary book for anyone venturing into Florida, and a consolation for those who can't, who may understand it just as fully if they stay at home and read this voluptuously intelligent book.
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