Todd S. Purdum worked at The New York Times, covering politics and later served as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. Besides being a staff writer at Vanity Fair, Politico, and The Atlantic, he authored "Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution" and "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964." His most recent book is "Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television." Purdum lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Dee Dee Myers.
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