Michael Feldman stepped off a plane at Tucson International Airport on 17 February carrying two suitcases and a backpack, returning to Arizona to be with his wife as the search for her mother stretched through its third week. Most people following the coverage of Nancy Guthrie's disappearance had little reason to know his name before that moment. For those who did, his career reads like a quiet tour of the American political establishment.
Feldman, 57, born on 14 October 1968, has spent more than three decades building one of the more consequential behind-the-scenes careers in Democratic politics and corporate communications, almost entirely out of public view. That, in part, is why the crisis engulfing his family has drawn so much attention to him now.
