The State - News from Oct. 15, 1985

Former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. is working on a book explaining that his beliefs were formed partly by his father’s political career and his own training for the priesthood. “He has been working pretty steadily on it for the last four or five months,” Nathan Gardels, executive director of the Institute for National Strategy, said of the book. The Brown-created institute is a think tank headquartered in Brown’s former campaign office in Los Angeles. The former Democratic governor, who had a keen interest in computers, is writing the book using a computer given to him by his staff when he left office in January, 1983. An associate told the Sacramento Union that the book will be somewhat autobiographical and promote Brown’s approach to retooling liberalism. In general, Gardels said, the effort will describe how Brown’s beliefs were molded by factors such as the career of his father, former Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, and his Jesuit training.