Rick Wartzman is executive director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University and a columnist for BusinessWeek online. He coauthored the bestseller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, which was selected as one of the 10 best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by The Los Angeles Times.