Steven Joseph Ross

STEVEN J. ROSS is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. He is the author of "Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics" (2011) which won an Academy of Motion Pictures Film Scholars Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; it was also listed by the New York Times Book Review as one of their recommended Summer Readings. His book, "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America" (1998), received the prestigious Theater Library Association Book Award for 1999 and was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the "Best Books of 1998." His other works include Movies and American Society (2002) and Workers On the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890 (1985). His Op-Ed pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, International Herald-Tribune, HuffingtonPost, Hollywood Reporter, and Politico.

His latest book, "Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America," was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018; it has been on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller list for 23 weeks. It tells the true story of a spy ring run by Los Angeles Jews from August 1933 until the end of WWII. Ross is currently working on a follow up to Hitler in Los Angeles called "The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to White Supremacy After 1945" (Bloomsbury).

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http://scalar.usc.edu/works/hitler-in-los-angeles/index