Jim Newton, Author . Riverhead $32 (614p) ISBN 978-1-59448-928-0
Los Angeles Times
editor and reporter Newton delivers the definitive biography of Earl Warren (1891–1974) for this generation. Newton's masterful narrative synthesizes Warren in all his contradictory guises: the dynamic and outsized...
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Jim Newton. Doubleday, $29.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-385-52353-0
The political skills Dwight Eisenhower honed while commanding a fractious WWII alliance made for a great presidency, according to this appreciative but also probing biography. L.A. Times editor-at-large Newton lauds the 34th president's "middle way"
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Jim Newton. Little, Brown, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-316-3-9246-4
In this overblown hagiography, journalist Newton (coauthor, Worthy Fights) views the life of four-term California governor Jerry Brown through the lens of the state’s post-WWII cultural, economic, and political upheavals. Charting Brown’s path from...
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