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Les Standiford has 29 books on Goodreads with 53626 ratings. Les Standiford’s most popular book is Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America.
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Les Standiford is an author and, since 1985, the Founding Director of the Florida International University Creative Writing Program in Miami, Florida. He also holds the Peter Meinke Chair in Creative Writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. His most recent books have been narrative non-fiction historical works.
Top Les Standiford titles. Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the S…. Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, Joh…. Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xan…. Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick,…. The Man Who Invented Christmas: How C….
Oct 25, 2011 · Les Standiford is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels as well as several works of nonfiction including Last Train to Paradise, The Man Who Invented Christmas, Meet You in Hell, and Washington Burning. He has received the Frank O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National ...
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See all books authored by Les Standiford, including Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean, and Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America, and more on ThriftBooks.com.
Aug 5, 2003 · Last Train to Paradise is acclaimed novelist Les Standiford's fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry ...