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Rick Wartzman is the director of the KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society at the Drucker Institute, a part of Claremont Graduate University. He also writes about work for Fortune magazine online. His books include Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and a PEN USA Literary Award; The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire (with Mark Arax), which won a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing; and a collection of magazine columns called What Would Drucker Do Now? He previously served for twenty years as a reporter, editor, and columnist at the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times.