Napoleon Bonaparte Broward: Florida’s Fighting Democrat.
1993 · Gainvesville
by Proctor, Samuel.
Gainvesville: University Press of Florida, (1993). Octavo, softbound (slick burgundy, photo. illus. wrappers), xvi, 400 pp. Light sunning to spine; otherwise, Fine. From Preface: Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was elected governor of Florida in 1904 after a bitter battle against the railroads and the corporations. He was hailed as the leader of the populist progressive movement that was moving across the South and throughout the country. It was a time of growth and of economic and political change. Governor Broward was recognized as a politician with an agenda that spoke to the needs and aspirations of the laborer and the farmer. Just as important was his skill as a political leader who was able to have much of his program enacted into law. Now, almost a century later, Broward continues to be recognized as one of the ablest and most effective governors in Florida’s history... (Inventory #: 8571bd)