Reviews
"a wonderfully written slice of Florida history with the thirty-third governor of Florida as the distinctive centerpiece."
--Winter Haven News Chief
…excellent life-and-times biography of Florida's 29th governor…one of the best Florida political histories in print of the second half of the 20th Century.
--The Lakeland Ledger
This book is a must read for native-born and adopted Floridians. It depicts with honesty, humor, and admiration a gentle courageous leader who promised to "do the right thing" and did it.
--ocala.com
…a very positive, inspirational story.
--Florida International Magazine
" Deserves a place on the shelves of any person interested in the tumultuous political history of Florida during the period of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin Dyckman has written a highly readable, insightful, and sometimes challenging volume that treats LeRoy Collins as something more than the sainted figure he is sometimes portrayed as being. In Dyckman's narrative, Collins emerges instead as a real person, with his courageous charcter helping to overcome his flaws."
--Tampa Bay History