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Paul Taylor
Paul Taylor has been a journalist, public opinion survey researcher, demographer, and media reformer.
He served as Executive Vice President of the Pew Research Center, where he oversaw all polling on social, demographic and generational trends.
Paul was a reporter for the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Twin City (NC) Sentinel and the Saratoga Springs Saratogian. He covered four U.S. presidential campaigns and was the Post’s bureau chief in South Africa during its transition from apartheid to democracy and the election of Nelson Mandela as its first black president.
He founded and served as president of the Alliance for Better Campaigns, a non-partisan public interest group that sought to improve the way U.S. presidential campaigns are conducted on television. Its honorary co-chairs were Walter Cronkite, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.
Paul has published three books — This is Getting Old, The Next America, and See How They Run — and given lectures around the world about demographic and generational change.
Books
About the book
In This Is Getting Old: Two Boomers and Their Generation at Dusk, Paul Taylor tells two intertwined stories.
One is the tale of a long marriage shaped by time, as he and his wife navigate the realities of aging in the Adirondack community where their story began.
The other is a candid reckoning with the Baby Boom generation, what it was given, what it got wrong, and what it leaves behind.
Blending memoir with cultural and political insight, this is a thoughtful, often funny, sometimes painful, and ultimately hopeful reflection on love, legacy, and the country we pass on to those who follow.