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It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History Hardcover - 2015

by Myrna Katz Frommer; Harvey Frommer


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Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting headlines of today. Sun and fun, yes, but the story is much more than that.

We are there through the dramatic days of World War II, the segregated south that Miami was, Meyer Lansky and cops and robbers, the Cocaine Cowboys, the post-war glamour of the flashy hotels and famed architect Morris Lapidius, the Fountainbleau and Eden Roc, the Jewish presence and contributions, the swinging Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. We are witness to Muhammad Ali and the iconic Fifth Street Gym, the preserving of art deco, the days of the Mariel and Pedro Pan and the Cuban impact. We are brought inside modern day Miami--an international city, a place of culture and dreamers, a city of tomorrow.

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  • Title It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History
  • Author Myrna Katz Frommer; Harvey Frommer
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Date 2015-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781589799509 / 158979950X
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.3 x 7.3 x 0.8 in (26.16 x 18.54 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Geographic Orientation: Florida
    • Locality: Miami, Florida
  • Library of Congress subjects Miami (Fla.), Oral history
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015024678
  • Dewey Decimal Code 975.9

About the author

Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer met as undergraduates at New York University. Coauthors of five critically acclaimed oral histories, the Frommers are noted cultural historians, widely published travel writers and professors in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at Dartmouth College. Their home base is Lyme, New Hampshire.
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