How Florida Happened

Buddy MacKay

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• A remarkably honest political biography When Florida governor Lawton Chiles died unexpectedly on December 12, 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bus... Lees meer

The Failure of Term Limits in Florida

Kathryn A Depalo

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "The definitive account of how term limits have reshaped contemporary Florida politics."--Seth C. McKee, author of Republican Ascendancy in Southern U... Lees meer

Inside Bush V. Gore

Charley Wells

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "The Bush v. Gore legal challenge constituted the perfect political and legal storm. Thankfully, Charley Wells sheds his black robe to give readers an... Lees meer

Jigsaw Puzzle Politics in the Sunshine State

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "The most complete and inventive examination of redistricting in the political science literature. This book shows again that the political laboratory... Lees meer

Making Modern Florida

Mary E Adkins

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "Adkins portrays a major turning point in the development of modern Florida and has done a great job of bringing to life so many of the people who ach... Lees meer

Florida's Minority Trailblazers

Susan MacManus

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "Saves a piece of Florida political history by narrating the personal stories of the state's 'minority trailblazers' from the civil rights movement to... Lees meer

Conservative Hurricane

Matthew T Corrigan

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• "A timely reminder that Jeb Bush was and remains a deep-dyed conservative who was not reluctant to magnify and use all the powers of his office."--Mar... Lees meer

Red Pepper and Gorgeous George

James C Clark

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• For nearly a century in Florida and throughout the South, election to the United States Senate virtually guaranteed a lifetime position, especially if... Lees meer

Reubin O'D. Askew and the Golden Age of Florida Politics

Martin A Dyckman

• Paperback | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• Inside the reinvention of Florida politics "If I were asked to recommend just one book about my state that would remind us all of the power of real po... Lees meer

Florida's Other Courts

Robert M. Jarvis

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• Pushing past the standard federal-state narrative, the essays in Florida's Other Courts examine eight little-known Florida courts. In doing so, they f... Lees meer

The 57 Club

Frederick B Karl

• Hardcover | Engels | Florida Government and Politics
• An inside look into the sausage-making process of Florida politics "Karl's descriptions of various aspects of the legislative process are superb. . . ... Lees meer