Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Los Angeles Times and the author of Colossus: A History of Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century, The New Deal: A Modern History and Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex.
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