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Hemingway's Hurricane: The Great Florida Keys Storm of 1935 (review)

Phil Scott’s Hemingway’s Hurricane is a nonfiction account of the Category 5 storm that struck the Florida Keys on Labor Day weekend in 1935, traumatizing the Middle Keys, killing hundreds, and prompting Hemingway’s savage account in The New Masses—“Who Murdered the Vets?” Scott’s thoroughly researched book follows the beginnings of the 1935 hurricane from the first Weather Service bulletins from the Atlantic to the reports of Pan Am pilots as they flew past the storm. Using archived records, Scott explains the formation of the hurricane from its unusual beginnings in the Antilles to its destructive path through Florida’s Middle Keys. As the storm began to take shape, approximately 700 World War i veterans were living in three Federal Emergency Relief Administration (fera) camps in the Keys, helping to build an Overseas Highway bridging the islands from the mainland to Key West. The highway followed along the path of Henry Flagler’s Railroad, often considered the Eighth Wonder of the World because of its many bridges spanning the sea between the low-lying islands. The highway project was a Depression Era effort to employ some of the thousands of out-of-work veterans who made up the “Bonus Army” that had marched in protest on Washington, d.c. in 1932. Less than a year after the hurricane, similar fera camps and projects would develop into the Works Progress Administration (wpa). Harry Hopkins, who would head wpa for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was director of the fera, and had a plan for hurricane season. It was simple. As a hurricane approached, a train from Flagler’s Railroad