Editing Steven Rattner (section)

==Early life and education==
Rattner was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family<ref>[https://www.jweekly.com/2015/05/22/the-road-to-the-white-house-goes-through-jerusalem/ Jewish news of Northern California: "The road to the White House goes through Jerusalem" by Douglas M. Bloomfield] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000948/https://www.jweekly.com/2015/05/22/the-road-to-the-white-house-goes-through-jerusalem/ |date=September 29, 2017 }} May 22, 2015</ref> in [[Great Neck, New York]], the son of Selma and George Rattner.<ref name = Roberts>{{cite news|url = https://www.newsweek.com/mostly-charmed-life-steve-rattner-87639|title = The (Mostly) Charmed Life of Steve Rattner|last = Roberts|first = Johnnie L.|date = August 1, 2008|accessdate = April 17, 2023|magazine = [[Newsweek]]}}</ref><ref name=NYTWedd /> His father was the president of a small paint company and a playwright who produced several [[Off-Broadway]] plays; his mother was an architecture preservationist and vice president of the Victorian Society of America.<ref name = Roberts/><ref name=NYTWedd /><ref name=NYTGSObit>[https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/nyregion/g-s-rattner-paint-maker-and-writer-dies-at-82.html?mcubz=3 New York Times: "G. S. Rattner, Paint Maker and Writer, Dies at 82"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000702/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/nyregion/g-s-rattner-paint-maker-and-writer-dies-at-82.html?mcubz=3 |date=September 29, 2017 }}  December 17, 2004</ref> He attended local public schools in Great Neck. Rattner received his A.B. with honors in economics from [[Brown University]] in 1974 and was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. While at Brown, he served as editor-in-chief of ''[[The Brown Daily Herald]]'' in 1973.