Editor of Blueprint, a new magazine covering Los Angeles and California, and author of Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made and Eisenhower: The White House Years; former editor-at-large and columnist at the Los Angeles Times (1992-1997)
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