Conservative Hurricane: How Jeb Bush Remade Florida (Florida Government And Politics)

Against the backdrop of the Tea Party-dominated GOP, former Florida governor Jeb Bush may appear comparatively moderate, but his record tells a different story. In Conservative Hurricane, Matthew Corrigan probes beyond the mild veneer, the sound bites, and the photo ops to examine the real evidence of Bush's political leanings-his policies, politics, and legacy as the state's most powerful governor. After remaking himself from a strident ideologue into a restrained conservative policy wonk, Bush became Florida's first two-term Republican governor. The small-government conservative-who in his

• | Author: Matthew T. Corrigan
• | Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0813060451
• | ISBN-13: 9780813060453