Napoleon Bonaparte Broward: Florida's Fighting Democrat (florida Sand Dollar Books) [Paperback]

From reviews of the first edition:
The impact of [Broward's] career upon the Florida political scene is told by Samuel Proctor with a skill that combines suspense and accuracy. . . . A great contribution in the field of Florida history. --Miami Daily News

The first full-dress biography of [a] colorful Florida politician. . . . His name is perpetuated in the county created at the height of the drainage boom for which he was chiefly responsible. But to many Floridians the name of Broward means a daring filibusterer who smuggled guns and guerrillas to Cuba's revolutionaries. That melodramatic chapter of Broward's life is not overlooked by biographer Proctor. -- Miami Herald

Now in a new paperback edition, Samuel Proctor's popular biography was first described as a lusty narrative of a lusty age. Revealing the politics and intrigues of frontier Florida in the period still known as the Broward Era, Proctor describes the life and liberal administration of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward (1857-1910), elected governor of Florida in 1904.
?? Hailed as chief of the wool hat faction in Florida and as a leader of the populist movement in the South and throughout the country, Broward identified with laborers, farmers, and tradesmen and fought bitterly against the railroad magnates, lumber barons, and land pirates who dominated Florida politics after the Civil War. Under his leadership the legislature passed the progressive Buckman Act, which consolidated seven state colleges into two universities at Gainesville and Tallahassee and unified them under a Board of Control, and enacted tax reforms, child labor restrictions, and regulations to prevent the sale of cigarettes to minors. In an effort to turn acres of rich muck into productive farmland, Broward initiated the Everglades drainage project (with the now infamous slogan Water will run downhill ).
?? Through his life passed such figures as Theodore Roosevelt, inspecting newly rebuilt Jacksonvillel#&