Robert B MitchellRobert B. Mitchell is a retired Washington Post news service editorand award-winning biographer. He is the author of Congress and theKing of Frauds: Corruption and the Credit Mobilier Scandal at the Dawnof the Gilded Age, and Skirmisher: The Life, Ties, and Political Career ofJames B. Weaver. In 2009, the State Historical Society of Iowa presentedMitchell with the Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award, given annually to theauthor of the previous year's most significant book about Iowa history, for Skirmisher. Mitchell's work has been published by the Post, the DesMoines Register, American Heritage, Time, America's Civil War, and American History. He is a graduate of Grinnell College. Read More Read Less