

The Swamp Peddlers
How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
Author: Jason Vuic
Narrator: Mike Chamberlain
Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 06/21/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Political Science, Public Policy
Synopsis
As Jason Vuic recounts in this raucous history, these communities allowed generations of northerners to move to Florida cheaply, but at a price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; developers cleared forests, drained wetlands, and built thousands of miles of roads in grid-like subdivisions, which, fifty years later, played an inordinate role in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis.