Paul B BeersPaul 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 /i>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. Read More Read Less