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Sunshine boys.(Book Currents: three books)(Brief Article)
"He is the best PUDDING for mosquitoes that I ever saw. They work on him fast and vicious." The subject of this impish characterization, offered by the Palm Beach Post in 1918, was Addison Mizner, the three-hundred-pound bon vivant and Jazz Age architect credited with transforming the swampy coast of southern Florida into a thriving "Venice-on-the-Atlantic." In BOCA ROCOCO (Clarkson Potter), Caroline Seebohm tells how Mizner feasted on Florida's untapped possibilities the way the local insects feasted on him. With his pet chows and monkeys in tow, Mizner brought outlandish panache -- and a heaping helping of Mediterranean Revival -- to Palm Beach and envisioned Boca Raton as an audacious "Dream City in the Western World."
Mizner eventually went bust. But down in Miami Beach an improbable boom was taking off just as the ...
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