Michael Hiltzik, author of Big Science, is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author who has covered business, technology, and public policy for the Los Angeles Times for three decades. He currently serves as the Times's business columnist and hosts its business blog, The Economy Hub. His books include The New Deal, Colossus, Dealers of Lightning, and The Plot Against Social Security. Mr. Hiltzik received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two children.
Books by Michael Hiltzik
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex
Simon & Schuster, 2015
Free Press, 2011
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
Free Press, 2010