Millions of people to florida in the 19 twenties and the development of the states wetlands. Good evening everybody. Thank you for joining us this evening to support your local independent bookstore maybe not so beautiful tonight. We appreciate you being here for that in the silent position we appreciate it. We will send you ever emails about what goes on here at this location i dont know if youve been down to Coconut Grove but we have a new store down there and another one worth mentioning on january 26 you can buy tickets and any number of events you can visit us we do podcast with a lot of the authors usually do that by accessing the webpage. Mr. Christopher for knowlton and how it brought on the Great Depression. A former staff writer for Fortune Magazine and spent 13 years in the Investment Business the Hidden History of the cowboy west. [applause] thank you steve and i appreciate you coming. Its good to be back in coral gables. It seems like just yesterday i was her researching t
And the arrival of the key figures in florida in the years leading up to the boom in the giddiness of the frenzy it self which could be described as one gigantic party, followed by the pain and tragedy of the bust. I think these are very american stories. Every generation lives through one or 2 such booms and busts and virtually everyone learns a few painful lessons from them. Part and parcel of living in a Free Enterprise system with freemarket capitalism. I like to think there is a more serious aspect to what i am doing. I have come to believe we need to look under the proverbial hood of these frenzies to understand why they arose, what went wrong and who or what might be to blame because the economy john kenneth gob race once wrote, quote, regulation that outlaws financial incredulity is not a practical possibility. In other words you cant legislate away human gullibility. How these events happened, and not to be seduced by such speculative frenzies because they do keep on occurring
This location and all of our other locations. Please fit us it was at coconut grove. Another one worth mentioning down at the art center we have on january 26 at 630 isabella will be joining us. You could buy tickets online for that if there any still available. Any number of wonderful events you can visit us here. We do farm and table dinners. We do podcasts with a lot of authors. Owner and founder. You can only do that by accessing the webpage so please visit us there. We have mr. Christopher knowlton and the florida boom of the 1920s and bringing on the Great Depression. It is our fault, right . I thought there is Something Else involved. Christopher knowlton is a former staff writer for fortune magazine. He has spent 15 years in the investment business. His previous book was cattle kingdom. Please give him a nice warm welcome. [applause] thank you, steve moss. Appreciate that. Good evening, everybody. Really appreciate your company. Its nice to be back in coral gables. Seems like j
Local independent bookstore. Beautiful downtown coral gables. Maybe not so beautiful tonight but if you dont like the weather in florida, wait five minutes. We appreciate you being here, if anyone has a cell phone thats ringing please put that on silent. Also dont forget to go to a webpage. We will send you emails about everything that goes on at this location and other locations. I dont know if you been to Coconut Grove recently but we have a new story there. Another one with mentioning done at the adrian arst center we have on january 26 at 6 30 p. M. Isabel allende will be joining us you can buy tickets online at the our center. Org. Any number of wonderful events you can visit us here we do farm to table dinners, podcasts with a lot of others with our owner and founder you can only do that by accessing the webpage. We are very happy to see Christopher Knowlton with us, bubble in the sun the florida boom of the 1920s and hook braid on the Great Depression. So its our fault, right. I
Clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american