Kyle Harrison
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Bubble in the Sun
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
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.