Mr. Gross was a newspaper reporter, edited small magazines, and wrote books critical of psychiatry, psychotherapy and the medical care system before he took aim at the federal government with several books sharply faulting the ways of governance, including wastage in taxation and public spending. Source: New York Times obit of author at: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/books/martin-l-gross-critic-of-big-government-dies-at-88.html