Brown and 'The Art of War'

Gov. Jerry Brown, a battle-scarred survivor in California politics who has vanquished well-armed opponents such as billionaire Meg Whitman, has said his strategic guidebook for decades has been a slim, 2,500-year-old volume: "The Art of War" by Chinese general Sun Tzu. San Francisco Chronicle.

This week, as he asked Republican and Democratic legislators to delay a crucial vote on the state budget in order to "find common ground" over closing the $26.6 billion deficit, Brown's actions suggest that he's taken the book's lessons to heart.