| #155913 in Books | 2009-10-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.41 x6.50 x9.54l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 464 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Well Researched, Intriguing, Yet Oddly Unfulfilling|By TMStyles|"Miami Babylon" subtitled "Crime, Wealth, And Power--A Dispatch From The Beach" is at once oddly intriguing yet ultimately unfulfilling. Perhaps my expectations were inappropriate as I enjoyed the book and the attendant history yet I sought more of a defining theme to interlace all the various eras, heroes, villai|From Publishers Weekly|Miami Beach proves a multilayered topic for Posner: investigative journalist, bestselling author (Case Closed) and denizen of America's most decadent city. Posner examines how Miami Beach turned from a quiet resort into the intercon
Here, in all its neon-colored, cocaine-fueled glory, is the never-before-told story of the making of Miami Beach. Gerald Posner, author of the groundbreaking investigations Case Closed and Why America Slept, has uncovered the hair-raising political-financial-criminal history of the Beach and reveals a tale that, in the words of one character, "makes Scarface look like a documentary."
You easily download any file type for your device.Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power--A Dispatch from the Beach | Gerald Posner. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
