About the Author

Paul B. Beers is the author of four previous books including The Pennsylvania Sampler (1970) and The Republican Years (1971). A newspaperman for three decades, he has been the "Reporter at Large" columnist for The Evening News since 1961 and associate editor of this Harrisburg daily since 1969, He has won awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Political Science Association, has been a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford. Mr. Beers is a graduate of Wilkes College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.