In today’s episode 201, guest hosted by lawyer turned 5^th grade school teacher turned 18^th Century docent, Janet Wade, who happens to be married to host Landis Wade, we visit with Bob Deans, author of The Bicycle Man, a novel that allows the reader to experience the emotional and turbulent headlines of 1968 as seen through the eyes of a young paperboy.

Bob Deans started out in the news business when he was ten years old, delivering his hometown paper, the “Richmond Times-Dispatch.” He spent three decades as a reporter for “The Post & Courier” of Charleston, S.C., and “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,” including four years as Chief Asia Correspondent, based in Tokyo, and eight years covering the White House and he’s a former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association.

Major Garrett, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News, says of the book: “Lyrical, lustrous and tender. Deans is a craftsman, and the words here flow with certainty, truth and ache, taking us into the promise, discovery and heart of a boy as the world outside both marches forward and encroaches on his own. A beautiful and captivating story.”