David Olive, an award-winning author of 10 previous books, is a business and current affairs columnist at the Toronto Star who has covered three Democratic National Conventions, in New York, Chicago and Boston. A long-time U.S. political observer, Olive has written about the rise of Obama's career for the Star. He is also a former editor-in-chief of Report on Business Magazine and a senior writer at the Financial Post, Globe and Mail and National Post.