We live in a state where strange things can happen in politics, but you won’t see anything stranger than the time Georgia had three people who all claimed to be the state’s chief executive. This was the "three governors controversy" of 1947, an incident that made Georgia a national laughingstock and shaped the state’s politics for years. As we near the 70th anniversary of that scandalous event, Charles Bullock of the University of Georgia, Scott E. Buchanan and Ronald Keith Gaddie have co-authored "The Three Governors Controversy," and it is a book that is both hilarious and excruciatingly painful to read.