A Little Left of Center: An Editor Reflects on His Mennonite Experience

Where does an editor come from? Daniel Hertzler grew up during the 1930s on a hard-scrabble farm in eastern Pennsylvania. He went to college after a World War II-era farming interlude, where he learned editing while working on the Eastern Mennonite College Yearbook. Though he never took a formal course in journalism, Hertzler refined his editing abilities with a wide-ranging education and long-time service in many editing roles at Mennonite Publishing House. In this engagingly offbeat and often humorous memoir, Hertzler tells of his editing years, his larger life story, and how his theological and philosophical positions have come to place him just "a little left of center.