A man operating an aluminum rolling mill at the Davenport Works (DPW) of the Aluminum Company of America (later known as the Alcoa Corporation) in Davenport, Iowa, circa 1965. Aluminum Company of America/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
NEW KENSINGTON, Pennsylvania—Thomas Tull is walking along the old wooden brick floor of what began as the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and later became Alcoa, a place where researchers and manufacturers created a hub of foundational aluminum manufacturing for nearly a century.
Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
