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Michael Barone '66 says The Almanac of American Politics was born one night in 1963 at a reception for newly elected editors of The Harvard Crimson. Barone, the principal author of the Almanac, remembers meeting Grant Ujifusa '64 that evening and asking him about his home town...
...Worland, Wyoming," Ujifusa said...
...Ujifusa said, stunned by his new acquaintance's knowledge of that esoteric fact...
...when Ujifusa began to organize a directory of Congressmen and Senators to aid the protest against the American invasion of Cambodia in 1970, he asked Barone to help compile it. "He knew I liked facts and figures," Barone says...
That predilection for information-collection, combined with a $10,000 advance from a small Boston publisher, translated into the first Almanac in 1972. That first edition set a style that Barone and Ujifusa have followed and expanded in five subsequent Almanacs. The book contains a 1500-word profile of each member of Congress and his districts, lists of members' stands on several key issues, ratings by major political action groups and biographical data. Barone has written all of it (Ujifusa edits) since the first edition...