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Originally Posted by martine48
Perhaps the book you are referring to is Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias.
It is interesting but written several years ago so is out date concerning TV.
The writer who does not like retirement communities and is biased against them probably due to the fact that he was in his 30s or 40s when he wrote the book.
The book is spiced up mainly to help sell more copies, after all he wrote it to make money.
It is however an interesting read. It explains how the Morse family aka The Developer uses various "methods" to finance and build TV. I believe the library in Wildwood has several copies
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He was only here in the Villages for a few weeks in late 2005. Various libraries that serve the Villages have copies of this book. It does go into the sex lives of a few Villagers and seems to overgeneralize from those that those lives are some how reflective of the average Villager.
Most of the Villagers I talked to about the book really hated it. This was when it came out around 2008.
Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children: Andrew D. Blechman: 9780802144188: Amazon.com: Books
It is by Andrew Blechman.
Book Review | 'Leisureville,' by Andrew D. Blechman - The New York Times
It does cover the history and government of the Villages fairly well though and he has some thoughtful comments about grandparents and their involvement in their sons and daughters and their grandkids lives even if these too seem quite over-simplified.