Ed Rendell

ED RENDELL served as the 45th Governor of Pennsylvania and as District Attorney and Mayor of Philadelphia across more than three decades in public office. He is the author of A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great.

Rendell holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. He also served as chair of the national Democratic Party and as chairman of the National Governors Association.

When not writing, Rendell works as a senior political analyst and as a partner at the law firm Ballard Spahr LLP. His public career, spanning prosecution, city government, and state leadership, shapes his perspective on American political life.

Ed Rendell’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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