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Has to be considered essential reading for anyone interested in Florida's history, especially the boom years of the twenties... Davis had done a tremendous job of bringing to light the writings of an important figure in Florida's history. The Wide Brim Stands on its own as a delightful read, but it leaves me anxiously awaiting the biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas that Jack Davis is writing.

These are not simply important Florida stories; they are essays about significant American women and their organizations, key players in transforming the state and region in the twentieth century. --Journal of Southern History An impressive collection. . . . Anyone interested in women's activism and in women's leadership for social change would do well to consult this book. --History of Education Quarterly Specialists in Florida history will learn much from this volume about women's individual and collective actions in state politics, from the impact of individual female political leaders to the work of Florida women in such diverse fields as home demonstration work, environmentalism, the civil rights movement, and women's liberation. --Florida Historical Quarterly

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Jack E. Davis is professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida. Kari Frederickson is professor of history at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the author of Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South.

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