Bill Rentschler has a wide-ranging background as a two-time U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois; editor & publisher of community newpapers on Chicago's North Shore and in San Fransisco; CEO of low tech consumer product companies; political campaign strategist and leader statewide for Eisenhower, Nixon, Senators Charles Percy and Barry Goldwater and other prominent Republicans, and consultant to small and midsized private companies. Rentschler is a graduate of Princeton University with a B.A. in American History, where he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian. He returned from Chicago to his hometown of Hamilton, Ohio for a change of pace to write and teach after spending most of his adult life in Lake Forest, IL, as a journalist, CEO of private companies, and political/civic activist, and leader. He served 33 months in the U.S. Navy in World War II. His five adult children - Sarah, Peter, Mary Alley, Phoebe Cole and Hope Garbo - and his six grandchildren are scattered from sea to shining sea and the Gulf Coast. His most recent books are GOLDWATER: A Tribute to a 20th Century Political Icon (published by a subsidiary of McGraw Hill), and The Paper Sword (Chicago Review Press).