Charles D MahaffieEducated at Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Charles Mahaffie Jr. was an attourney at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, then a partner of Cleary Gottleib Steen & Hamilton in Washington, D.C. "I found the law entirely satisfyng," he says. "But I hankered to try something different, and so, once the children were educated and the home paid for, I withdrew to apply myself to learning and writing history." His longtime interest in American colonial history led to a focus on the region once known as Acadia. "The story of Acadia furnished me a procession of colourful characters and the sort of accidents and event-shaping coincidences that make history an endless fascination." The Mahaffie's divide their time between Bethesda, Maryland, and Bethany Beach, Delaware. Read More Read Less