Dream State

A sweeping story of Florida told through eight generations of family history



Part

family memoir, part political commentary, part apologia, Dream

State tells the grand and sometimes crazy story of Florida through the

eyes of one of its native daughters. Acclaimed journalist and NPR

commentator Diane Roberts has many family secrets to tell as she reveals

how her ancestors settled in Florida and wove themselves into the very

fabric of the state.



With a storyteller's talent for

setting great scenes, Roberts lays out the sweeping history of eight

generations of Browards and Bradfords, Tuckers and Robertses. Continuing

into the recent past with the botched presidential election of 2000,

Roberts renders Florida's inhabitants with a deep, familial affection.

While exposing the real people whom Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard

fictionalized for years, Dream State ultimately reveals the cogs and

wheels that make the state tick.