Insiders' Guide Quick Escapes Washington, D.C.: Getaways From The Nation's Capital

Go hiking in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia; visit Fallingwater in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania; or stay at a Victorian cottage in Cape May, New Jersey--twenty-four minivacations take readers away from the hustle and bustle of our nation's capital.

John Fitzpatrick teaches political science and is the Director of the State University of New York at Brockport's Washington Semester Program. John is a graduate of Georgetown University and has a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He worked as a Congressional staffer for ten years and ran a political consulting firm for eight years.

Holly Burkhalter is Advocacy Director of Physicians for Human Rights, an international human rights organization. Holly is a graduate of Iowa State University and a recipient of one of its Distinguished Young Alumni awards. She is the author of numerous articles and op-ed pieces, and she frequently appears on radio and television discussing foreign policy. She is also the author of a cookbook/memoir, Four Midwestern Sisters Christmas Book (Viking Penguin, 1991).

John and Holly have been married since 1984. They have two daughters, Grace Bofa Fitzpatrick and Josie Bao-Ngan Fitzpatrick.