David A. Corbin served as a Senate staffer for twenty-six years--six years on the leadership staff of Senate majority leader Byrd and ten years on the leadership staffs of Senate majority leaders George Mitchell and Tom Daschle. He also served as Senator Byrd's speechwriter for the last ten years of his career. Corbin is the editor of The West Virginia Mine Wars: An Anthology and the author of The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents. He received his PhD in history from the University of Maryland and lives in Annapolis.