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.