Joe Klein

Joe Klein (born September 7, 1946) is an American journalist and columnist. He is the political columnist for Time magazine and is known for his novel Primary Colors, an anonymously written roman à clef portraying Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. Klein is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. In April 2006 he published Politics Lost, a book on what he calls the "pollster–consultant industrial complex." He has also written articles and book reviews for The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Life, and Rolling Stone.

Early life and career

Klein was born in Albany, New York, the son of Miram (née Warshauer) and John Klein, a printer. His maternal grandfather was professional musician Frank Warshauer. He has referred to his heritage as Jewish.

Klein graduated from the Hackley School and the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in American civilization. In 1969 Klein began reporting for the Essex County Newspapers, and The Peabody Times in Peabody, Massachusetts In 1972 he reported for Boston's WGBH, and until 1974 he was also the news editor for The Real Paper in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a contributing editor for Rolling Stone from 1975 to 1980, and Washington bureau chief from 1975 to 1977. He became friends with actor–director Tom Laughlin after interviewing him for Rolling Stone and appeared briefly as a reporter in Laughlin's 1977 film Billy Jack Goes to Washington.

Joe Klein (baseball executive)

Joseph Anthony Klein III (born August 22, 1942) is an American professional baseball executive. Currently the executive director of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an independent circuit that operates in the Northeast United States, Klein was a farm system and scouting director and general manager in Major League Baseball for two decades, from 1976 through 1995.

Minor league first baseman and manager

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Klein was a minor league first baseman in the Washington Senators farm system from 1962 to 1968. A left-handed batter and thrower, he hit .278 in 1,733 at bats. After retiring from the field, he spent 16 years as a minor league manager and front office executive with the franchise, beginning in 1969 when it was still the expansion edition of the Senators, and continuing after it became the Texas Rangers in 1972.

He managed farm clubs in the Class A Western Carolinas League and Carolina League, the Double-A Eastern League (where his 1973 Pittsfield Rangers club won a division championship) and the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League between 1969 and 1978. In 1976, Klein also added the title of assistant farm system director of the Rangers, and was promoted to head of its farm system and then director, player procurement and development, between 1978 and 1982.

Joe Klein (disambiguation)

Joe Klein (born 1946) is an American journalist and columnist, known for his novel Primary Colors.

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Joe Klein (audio)

Joe Klein (born Joseph Klein, July 2, 1953) is an American audio producer, voice over artist and voice director. While in high school, Klein was at the helm of a closed circuit radio station. After a brief stint as a teenage disc jockey he was hired by jazz singer and producer John Lasalle in the early 1970s. The pair soon became partners and produced hundreds of national radio and television commercials and jingles.

In 1977, Klein started his own production company, L.A. Trax, INC. Shortly after starting the company Klein was "discovered" by radio veteran Scott Shannon, who at the time was working for Neil Bogart's Casablanca Records. Shannon asked Klein to produce an ad for the disco version of the Star Wars theme artist by Meco Menardo. Klein went on to produce hundreds of additional ads for the label over the next three years.

Klein began to produce record spots for other major labels, including Warner Bros. Records, Capitol Records, EMI-America, Motown, Liberty, Chrysalis, Ariola-America among others. By the early 1980s L.A. Trax was known as producer of record album spots in the United States. During a fifteen-year period Klein produced over 1200 radio and television spots working with voice actors, such as Ernie Anderson, Chuck Riley, Gene Moss, Danny Dark, and actors William Shatner and Martin Sheen. The company also produced several corporate and marketing videos before Klein closed the company in 1992.