{"product_id":"miami-book-t-d-allman-9780813049236","title":"Miami","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"An exuberant portrait of the city.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"Superbly reported and deftly written.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBusiness Week\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"An extraordinary look at an extraordinary city.\"--Edward James Olmos, actor and director, \u003ci\u003eMiami Vice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"As entertaining and as distracting as the city itself.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"After reading this book, I still don''t understand what makes Miami what it is, but that''s why I love this book and that crazy town.\"--Jimmy Buffett, singer and songwriter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"A delightfully unbuttoned paean to ''Babel on Biscayne Bay.'' . . . As complex, compelling, and colorful as the city it celebrates.\"--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e\"Not only does T. D. Allman''s portrait of Miami remain, a quarter century later, as smart and funny and keenly observed as it was upon its first publication day, it is vibrantly current and astonishingly prescient. \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e resonates far beyond its immediate subject and illuminates deep truths about America''s--and, indeed, the world''s--twenty-first-century cultural and political turmoil. Not incidentally, Allman''s brilliant prose style endures as well. The book is a joy to read.\"--Robert Olen Butler, author of \u003ci\u003eA Good Scent from a Strange Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric; mso-layout-grid-align: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto\"\u003eWith trenchant observations and witty prose, T. D. Allman takes readers on a tour of Miami''s people, cultures, politics, and neighborhoods. 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