Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/09/2025
7:30 pm
Location
Caltech - Ramo Auditorium
Category(ies)
Interior of Ramo Auditorium (Photo – Caltech.edu)
Behind The Book presents author Michael Hiltzik in conversation with David Zierle!
Join Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author for a discussion about his latest book, “Golden State: The Making of California,” as he joins David Zierler, the Caltech Heritage Project Director.
Hiltzik regularly appears in the LA Times where, for four decades, he has written about business, technology and public policy. He is the author of eight books including “Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex” and “Dealers of Lightning: XEROX PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age.” Zierler, the author of “The Invention of Ecocide,” directed history projects for the American Institute of Physics and the U.S. Department of State.
> Free, but reservations are recommended.
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