ED MUSKIE: Made in Maine, by Jim Witherell, covers the life and career of Edmund Ed Muskie, from his childhood in Rumford, Maine, to his years as the governor of Maine. Born in a paper mill town in Maine s western foothills, Muskie was one of six children of a Polish immigrant and a Polish-American mother whose English was worse than her husband s. His arc through his formative years was singular and unpredictable, an American story that looks plausible only in hindsight.