Transcript: Carl Hiaasen on Florida

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June 4, 2006
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Steve Kroft
60 Minutes (CBS)
06-04-2006
STEVE KROFT, CBS NEWS 60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: In a little less than a century, the state of Florida has been transformed from a largely uninhabited swamp to the fourth-largest state in the union. And no one has written about that transformation more successfully than Carl Hiaasen.

Part humorist, part muckraker, his satirical novels about greed, crime and corruption in the Sunshine State have become fixtures on the best-seller list and embraced by influential literary critics who compare him to Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken.

He is also an award-winning children`s author and a former investigative reporter-turned-columnist for the Miami Herald.

And, as ...

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