Hill, Gladwin

In 1944 Gladwin Hill joined the Associated Press as a World War II correspondent. Following the war, he joined the New York Times. When he retired in 1981, Hill had served as that newspaper's Los Angeles bureau chief for over twenty years. An astute observer and analyst of California politics, Hill in 1968 published Dancing Bear: An Inside Look at California Politics, considered a classic work on the state's modern political history. Hill's interest and commitment to environmental issues led him to write two additional books: Our Troubled Waters (1971) and Madman in a Lifeboat: Issues of the Environmental Crisis (1973).

From the description of Oral history interview with Gladwin Hill : oral history transcript / by Carlos Vasquez, Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 214945252

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