Son of a Son of a Politician

About the Book

For a dozen years, up to the dawn of a new millennium, Paul Helmke led Fort Wayne as mayor of Indiana's second-largest city. It was a time the community grappled with a flood of drugs, escalating crime, an eroding tax base, a flight to the suburbs and downtown decay. And it was a time when the politician's controversial alliances with such people like Bill Clinton, and his unpopular political decisions, like annexing suburbanites fleeing Fort Wayne, made him somewhat of a pariah within his own Republican party. Get a behind-the-scenes look, in Helmke's own words, at the players and events that helped shape Fort Wayne, and how his version of good government positioned the community for years to come.

About the Author

Andrew Jarosh is a journalist with The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he covered the 12 years of Mayor Paul Helmke. In addition to news writing, Jarosh has consulted in Eastern Europe, and hopes to write about Nazi collaborators and their victims in that part of the world.