James B. Steele is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and one-half of Barlett and Steele, the longest running investigative reporting team in American journalism. Recipients of virtually every major national journalism award including two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Magazine Awards and five IRE awards, Don Barlett and Jim Steele are also the authors of seven books, including the national bestseller (for nearly a year) America: What Went Wrong? They have worked together for more than three decades, first at The Philadelphia Inquirer, (1971-1997) where they won two Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other national journalism awards; then at Time magazine, (1997-2006) where they earned two National Magazine Awards, becoming the first journalists in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize for newspaper work and its magazine equivalent for magazine reporting; and at Vanity Fair since 2006.