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Florida Book Awards, BronzeMedal for Florida NonfictionFlorida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book AwardArguably no man did more to make over a city&#8212 or a state&#8212 than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America&#8217 s elite.Mr. Flagler&#8217 s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country&#8217 s &#8220 Oldest City&#8221  into the &#8220 Newport of the South.&#8221  He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise.In tracing Flagler&#8217 s life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, 
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