PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewPittman guides us through 18 chapters of natural, economic, political, social and personal history, each painstakingly reported and researched. These he arranges into a compulsively readable, lifer’s-eye view of a state he so obviously loves to death ... Interspersed if not quite threaded throughout these wonderful tidbits are Pittman’s own Florida memories and pronouncements. These snippets can be acute. They can also lapse into the type of avuncular zinger that is as endearing as it is groan-inducing...but this is a minor gripe.
