| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and the Making of Public Policy in Pennsylvania. By Vincent P. Carocci. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. x, 298p. Illustrations, index. $39.95.)
A Capitol Journal is a narrative of Vincent Carocci's life in which the author reflects on his more than forty years of service in journalism, government, and the private sector. Part autobiography and part memoir, the author includes passages about his entire life, but scholars and journalists will focus mostly on those sections that deal with Carocci's career in Pennsylvania government. Elected public officials frequently write such accounts, but few staff members of the state legislature or executive branch have done so. More impressive is the candor with which the author addresses his subject matter. Admittedly, this is not a history, nor is a balanced product the end result. Carocci's story is a traditional insider's account of the events he participated in and witnessed, but that observation in no way diminishes his insights and observations.	1
Carocci worked at various times for the Johnstown Tribune Democrat, the UPI, and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and he certainly reflects with great fondness on the halcyon days before Watergate when reporters covered the state capitol. He clearly has a penchant for the romantic, and for cigar chomping, hard-driving, hard-drinking, storytelling reporters of a bygone era He laments what he sees as the changes in his old profession, viewing it now as too combative, too confrontational, and too ideological.	. . .

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