Ringling: The Florida Years, 1911 - 1936.
1993 · Gainesville, FL
by Weeks, David C.
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1993. Review Copy, with Publisher’s Bookplate to title page. Quarto, spiral bound (black plastic spiral, stiff white covers with laminated cover illustration pasted to upper and lower covers), xvii + 337 pp. Very Good+. From lower cover: The writer’s familiarity with his subject brings John Ringling to the reader’s doorstep... [including the] early influences on Ringling’s life, the family’s success, Sarasota in its early decades, Ringling’s impact on boomtime Sarasota, his museum collection, the last years of his life, and the litigious perioud following his death. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Chronology; A Prologue: Ringling, the Showman; Sarasota’s Golden Promise; A Decade of Quiet Affluence; The Florida Gold Rush; Life in the Grand Manner; After the Boom; The Art Collector; A Long Farewell; Ten Years in Probate; John Ringling Redux; Notes; Bibliography; Index. (Inventory #: 61081bd)