Bubble in the Sun
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Bubble in the Sun
| Full title | Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression |
|---|---|
| Author | Christopher Knowlton |
| Published | 2020 |
| Pages | 411 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The 1920s Florida land boom — Carl Fisher at Miami Beach, George Merrick at Coral Gables, Addison Mizner at Boca Raton — and the 1926 hurricane and collapse that followed: a speculative real-estate mania documented developer by developer, which is rarer than the macro retellings. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @WillManidis — named in the thread answering “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?”, June 2025. Full list: what is the single best book… (tweet).
- @tylercosgrove — on his list of 25 books he offered to send to Jared Kushner, October 2025.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Real Estate — the industry.
- City Building — Miami Beach and Coral Gables were built from nothing in this decade.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.