Lawyer, leader and Renaissance man, my friend Roy Herron is a smart, energetic and genuinely people-loving Tennessee state senator who many observers expect to see in Congress soon. Or expect to see as Governor. Roy has written, with co-author Ivy Cotten, a fine and, in my view, much needed slice of history, color, quirk and wit of pols in the Volunteer State. In Tennessee, as I’ve written here before, I claim a mind-boggling number of kin and ancestry on my Dad’s side over the past 250 years–in politics, law, business, farming and even whiskey-making–along with more reputable and usually sober family who were on parole or probation probably just once or twice.