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Book - Outposts on the Gulf

by Rob Smith, Jr. on Apr.14, 2008, under Books

2008-0415-book-outposts-of.jpgThis is a very good book. Not only is it very well researched and footnoted, it’s also very balanced. I’ve noticed a trend of recent non-fiction books of Florida to have a very sharp political slant. Despite writing about the Civil War and the very conroversial land and oyster wheeler-dealer William Lee Popham the author, Willaim Warren Rogers, does and amazing job of being very fair.

Rogers writing of Popham could have leaned to pure camp. What a character! Getting the book to read just about Popham is well worth the price!

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