Ron Rubin is a professor of political science at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. He is the author of Anything for a T-Shirt: Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World's Greatest Footrace, published by Syracuse University Press. His other books include The Unredeemed: Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and Rudy, Rudy, Rudy: The Real and the Rational, a biography of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. Editor, Peri Devaney was the founding editor of Data Center Management and Executive Director of the magazine's publishing company. She then went on to form PERIodicals, an editorial, marketing, and design company, and she served as editorial consultant and rewrite editor for Diary of a Dirty Little War: The Spanish American War of 1898 and Richmond Pearson Hobson: Naval Hero from Magnolia Grove.