The lives of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary-if
misunderstood-thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes, jerks, and evil
doers from history all get their due in the short essays featured in
these enlightening, informative, books. Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks
in Florida History features more than a dozen short biographies of
nefarious characters, from the misguided Dr. Frederick Weedon, the
physician who treated the great Muskegee warrior Osceola during his
captivity, to Lewis Powell, John Wilkes Booth's Florida co-conspirator.