ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in Boston in 1932, Mason Drukman has had a varied career as factory worker, short-order cook, broadcaster (Armed Forces Radio Service), political scientist (Reed College; University of California, Berkeley), author (Community and Purpose in America: McGraw-Hill; Wayne Morse, A Political Biography: OHS Press), editor (The Oregon Times), administrator (The Learning Community, Portland, Oregon; Consumers Institute, Wellington, New Zealand; Survivors International, San Francisco), and freelance writer: his pieces have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and journals. He lives in Berkeley.

This is his first book of poetry.

Wayne Morse and the Myth of Maverick Ineffectiveness

Presented at the City Club of Portland, June 5, 1998.