"The best book ever written on Miami."--Tampa Tribune

"A breezy, friendly history of Greater Miami from its days as a trading post to the present era."--Publishers Weekly

Helen Muir s affectionate account of Miami first appeared in 1953 and has grown through several revisions into the definitive popular history of a remarkable city. Marjory Stoneman Douglas, writing for the Chicago Tribune, called the first edition "vigorous, colorful, dramatic, variously detailed, jam-packed with people, fast moving, a seething document. . . . Helen Muir threads her...