Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday
488 pages | 6 x 9 | 1980
Cloth edition is not available
ISBN 978-0-271-00238-5 | paper: $55.00 sh
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A sort of rough justice characterized the Pennsylvania political scene, this book argues, if we define justice in Learned Hand's words as "the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society."
According to the Prologue: "Reform always has worked better in Pennsylvania as an issue-based effort, rather than a broad political movement." According to the Epilogue: "Although 1978 was a year of intense competition, in the end—in revisions so typical of Pennsylvania—both the old and the new politics were refuted, while the comfortable middle-road was chosen."
Paul B. Beers is the author of four previous books including The Pennsylvania Sampler and The Republican Years. A newspaperman for three deacades, 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.