Todd S. Purdum Books

Something Wonderful - Paperback

Something Wonderful - Paperback

Something Wonderful - Paperback

By Todd S. Purdum
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television - Hardcover

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television - Hardcover

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television - Hardcover

By Todd S. Purdum

About Todd S. Purdum Books

Todd S. Purdum is a veteran journalist and author. In a career of more than forty years, he has written widely about politics and culture, starting at The New York Times, where he spent twenty-three years, covering politics from city hall to the White House, later serving as diplomatic correspondent and Los Angeles bureau chief. He has also been a staff writer at Vanity Fair, Politico, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution and An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, with whom he has two grown children.