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Book review: The Committee captures McCarthyism s turmoil in Florida
Michael Hoffmann
Akashic Books, 420 pages, $32.95
Historians, of necessity, are skeptical of historical fiction. But there is the atypical work, such as Patrick Smith s “A Land Remembered,” that historians praise for its historical verisimilitude. Sterling Watson s “The Committee” has a narrower scope than Smith’s Florida epic, but Watson accurately conveys the emotional turmoil induced in Floridians by the Johns Committee in the 1950s.
The Johns Committee was the creation of reactionary white legislators from North Florida led by Senator Charley Johns. This group of legislators, nicknamed the Pork Chop Gang, dominated the Legislature until the 1964 Supreme Court “one man, one vote” ruling forced a more equitable reapportionment of electoral power and state resources. ....

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