title: Dream State: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans and Other Florida Wildlife
author/editor: Diane Roberts
reviewed by: June Poucher
DREAM STATE
This volume is by Diane Roberts, a journalist and National Public Radio commentator. Roberts cuts to the core of the subject, telling the history of Florida -- her native state. From the book's extended title, the reader immediately savors an irreverent style that is entertaining and factual.
She tells the history of the Conquistadors as well as the political debacle of the 2000 presidential election. In fact, many of the skeletons she brings out of the closet into the sunshine are those of her own family!
Roberts is a first- rate storyteller who doesn't miss a trick!
June Poucher (Mar.'06) says: "Diane Roberts' style is reminiscent of Molly Ivins' political essays on the state of Texas."