Great Scott

About the Book

Rick Scott, a super rich former hospital executive who headed a major corporation that defrauded the U.S. government of many millions of dollars, bought the governorship of Florida in 2010. Inaugurated in January 2011, he quickly became the “most unpopular” governor in America, and recently AlterNet named him the nation’s ‘worst” governor. This book, which deals with the first 16 months of Scott’s 4-year term, is a j’accuse–a citizen’s complaint against the governor and his disastrous policies that not only have done great harm to Florida but enriched and empowered a few at the expense of the many. An updated edition of the book is planned for 2014, when Scott has vowed to seek re-election.

About the Author

Ken Kister, a freelance writer with a master’s degree from the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston, Massachusetts, has worked in several Florida libraries and taught as an adjunct instructor in the library school at the University of South Florida. He has written a number of books and articles about reference and information sources, among them Kister’s Best Encyclopedias and Kister’s Best Dictionaries. He is also the author of Eric Moon: The Life and Library Times, a wellreceived biography of one of America’s preeminent 20th-century librarians, as well as Florida on the Boil: Recommended Novels and Short-Story Collections Set in the Sunshine State. A native of Pennsylvania, Kister has lived in Florida since 1973.