Political and judicial histories from Chiles Center for Florida History

A rare double-book signing is being hosted at 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Lone Palm Country Club in Lakeland for James Michael Denham, director of the Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History of Florida Southern College in the city. The most recent book, “Florida Founder William P. DuVal: Frontier Bon Vivant” arrived this summer about a month after the publication of Denham’s book covering the history of federal court in Florida, “Fifty Years of Justice.” The rare coincidence prompted…