Atlas Snubbed
Ken V. Krawchuk was born and raised in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the grandson of five immigrant Eastern Europeans.  He attended Roman Catholic elementary and high school, and graduated from a Jesuit university with a B.S. in Physics.  He began his career as a professional computer programmer at the age of seventeen, and at thirty-five he founded a multi-million dollar computer consulting firm.  Seven years later he was awarded the first of three United States patents pertaining to computer database theory.   Mr. Krawchuk read Atlas Shrugged for the first time at the age of thirty, and the ideas portrayed in the book transformed him from a life-long liberal Democrat into an eight-time Libertarian Party candidate for public office, including two record-breaking campaigns for Governor of Pennsylvania.   Mr. Krawchuk has been a member of Toastmasters International since 1997, and has been a professional public speaker almost as long.  He is still married to his first wife Roberta, and they have been blessed with three daughters and two grandchildren (so far), and currently live in suburban Philadelphia.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.