Lionel Van Deerlin

About The Author

Lionel Van Deerlin is a former U.S. Congressman from San Diego, California, and is professor emeritus of journalism, San Diego State University, and a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Books by Lionel Van Deerlin

From the Barrio to Washington

An Educator's Journey

What would be the odds of a poor Mexican boy who migrated with his family to southern California in the 1920s rising through the ranks of the American education system to become the first Hispanic principal of a junior and senior high school in San Diego, the second Hispanic to be a college presi...
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