James B. Steele is one of the nation’s most honored journalists.  He has received virtually every major national reporting award, including two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine awards, six George Polk awards and many other honors. He is the co-author with his longtime reporting partner, Donald L. Barlett, of  nine books, two of which were New York Times best sellers. Steele and Barlett worked together for more than four decades, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer , then at Time and later at Vanity Fair.  Steele has been a professor of journalism at Princeton University and spoken widely to professional groups and university audiences. In recognition of his contributions to journalism, Temple University in 2016 created the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation in the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication. His most recent book, America: What Went Wrong? The Crisis Deepens,  is an update and expansion of Barlett and Steele’s 1992 #1 New York Times best seller on the dismantling of the American middle class.