Steven J. Ross is a Distinguished Professor of History at the Uni- versity of Southern California and Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is the author of Hitler in Los Angeles, a Los Angeles Times bestsell- er and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Hollywood Left and Right, which received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Film Scholars Award, and Working-Class Hollywood. He lives in South- ern California.