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of outlandish facts and quotes—he is a tenacious reporter—and a style that barely suppresses his own amusement. It works particularly well on the buccaneers who continue to try the patience of the citizenry, as proved by his profile in The New Yorker of the developer Donald Trump. Noting that Trump “had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury,
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Following the war, the Southernmost City once again became a thriving tourist destination, and though now the pirates and the wreckers are gone, as are the turtle-raising corrals and the sponge divers and the cigar factories and the Cuban rollers and their lectors, who read newspapers and novels aloud while they worked, and the blustery big-game-hu
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.
Joseph Heller • Catch-22
In 1903 he had added a twelve-mile extension of the FEC along an ancient limestone formation running southwestward from Miami and known as the Cutler Ridge.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Hardly had he completed his line to Palm Beach than those who were aware of his charter rights were begging him to extend the rails southward to Miami, even though there was no Miami at the time.