- James Steele (journalist)
James B. Steele (born
January 3 ,1943 ) is an Americaninvestigative journalist and author. With long with collaborator Donald L. Barlett he has won twoPulitzer Prizes , two National Magazine Awards and fiveGeorge Polk Award s during their thirty five years of service at the "Philadelphia Inquirer ", "Time", and "Vanity Fair".Steele was born in Hutchinson,
Kansas and was raised in Kansas City,Missouri . He graduated from theUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City and began his career at the "Kansas City Times ", where he covered politics, labor and urban affairs. In 1970 he joined the "Philadelphia Inquirer," where he would begin his collaboration with Barlett. In a 1972 collaboration for "The Philadelphia Inquirer", Steele and Barlett pioneered the use of computers for the analysis of data on violent crimes. Fact|date=November 2007 Twenty years later, they co-authored the series "America: What Went Wrong?" for "The Inquirer," which was named as one of the 100 best pieces of journalism of the 20th century by theNew York University School of Journalism. Rewritten into book form, "America: What Went Wrong?" became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. It is one of seven books Steele and Barlett have published.Barlett and Steele were hired by Vanity Fair to be contributing editors on the understanding that they would contribute two articles each year.Fact|date=November 2007 They were available for this new assignment after "Time" determined that they had insufficient space for the time of long journalistic investigations.Fact|date=November 2007
Steele is married and has a daughter.
Books
cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
publisher= W.W. Norton & Company
year=1979
isbn= 0393000257
url=cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= Forevermore: Nuclear Waste in America
publisher= W.W. Norton & Company
year=1985
isbn= 0393019209
url=cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= America: What Went Wrong?
publisher= Andrews and McMeel
year=1992
isbn= 0836270010
url=cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?
publisher= Simon & Schuster
year=1994
isbn= 0671871579
url=cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= America: Who Stole the Dream?
publisher= Andrews and McMeel
year=1996
isbn= 0836213149cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, And Costing You
publisher= Little, Brown and Company
year=2000
isbn= 0316811351
url=cite book
coauthors= Barlett, Donald L. and Steele, James B.
title= Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine
publisher= Doubleday
year=2004
isbn= 0385504543
url=Magazine articles
cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = States at War
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989509,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-09 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Corporate Welfare
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989508,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-09 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Fantasy Islands
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989572,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-16 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Sweet Deal
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989658,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
work = Time
date =1998-11-23 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Paying a Price for Polluters
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101981123-140519,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-23 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The Empire of the Pigs
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101981130-140572,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-30 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Five Ways Out
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989676,00.html
work = Time
date =1998-11-30 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = How the Little Guy Gets Crunched
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996000,00.html
work = Time
date =2000-02-07 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = How to Become a Top Banana
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,38423-1,00.html
work = Time
date =2000-02-07 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Soaked By Congress
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,44550-1,00.html
work = Time
date =2000-05-15 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Throwing the Game
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101000925-55103,00.html
work = Time
date =2000-09-25 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Who Gets the Money?
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003869,00.html
work = Time
date =2002-12-16 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Wheel of Misfortune
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003896,00.html
work = Time
date =2002-12-16 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Playing the Political Slots
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021223-399923,00.html
work = Time
date =2002-12-23 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The Really Unfair Tax
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411439,00.html
work = Time
date =2003-02-03 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The Oily Americans
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030519-450997,00.html
work = Time
date =2003-05-19 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Iraq's Crude Awakening
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030519-450939,00.html
work = Time
date =2003-05-19 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The U.S. is Running Out of Energy
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005239,00.html?internalid=ACA
work = Time
date =2003-07-21 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The Great Energy Scam
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101031013-493241,00.html
work = Time
date =2003-10-13 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Asleep at the Switch
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005865,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
work = Time
date =2003-10-13 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Why We Pay So Much for Drugs
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993223,00.html
work = Time
date =2004-02-02 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Has Your Life Become Too Much a Game of Chance?
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,993222,00.html?promoid=googlep
work = Time
date =2004-02-02 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Who Left the Door Open?
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,995145,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
work = Time
date =2004-09-20 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = The Broken Promise
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1122017,00.html
work = Time
date =2005-10-23 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Where Pensions are Golden
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1122010,00.html
work = Time
date =2005-10-31 cite news
last = Barlett
first = Donald L.
coauthors = Steele, James B.
title = Washington's $8 Billion Shadow
url = http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703
work = Vanity Fair
date = March 2007
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