Edward Robert McClelland

Edward Robert McClelland is the author of Young Mr. Obama, about the president's early years in Chicago, Nothin' But Blue Skies, a cultural history of the Rust Belt, and most recently, Midnight In Vehicle City, about the pivotal Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936.  McClelland's work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Salon, the New York Times, and a recent piece on the importance of the Stephen Douglas concession was published (on January 6th) in the Washington Post. Edward lives in Chicago.