About the author
Paul Richards was born in San Francisco, CA in 1944 and grew up in Oakland. He was a student at UC Berkeley 1961-1966, BA in History. PhD in economic history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978. He retired from the construction industry in 2009. He is the owner of Estuary Press, established in 1986. He is the father of two, grandfather of 5 and is married to Nina Serrano since 1987,