Commentary
PITTSBURGH—It’s 4:30 in the morning, and Raymond Mikesell’s alarm has gone off.
Signs blaring “Help Wanted” and “Temporarily Closed” have appeared all over the Strip District. Justin Merriman
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Salena Zito
Author
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.
