[1][2][3][4] He served as a senior advisor to Vice President Gore in 1993, helping to lead an effort to reform the federal government.

[2] He has also written articles for The Washington Post,[13] The Atlantic,[14] The New York Times Magazine,[15] Harper's,[16] The New Republic,[17] Governing,[18] Education Week,[19] and other publications.

[21] Reinventing Government, co-authored with Ted Gaebler, described how public sector institutions across America were transforming the bureaucratic models they had inherited from the past and, thereby, creating more flexible, creative, and entrepreneurial systems and organizations.

In that role, he gave speeches on reinventing government in many countries and advised presidents, ministers, governors, mayors, city managers, school superintendents, and other public sector leaders.

Osborne was the chief author of the September 1993 report generated by the National Performance Review, which laid out the Clinton Administration's reinvention agenda.

The Coming is an epic novel of Native/White relations in North America, told through the life of Daytime Smoke—a real historical figure, the red-haired son of William Clark and a Nez Perce woman.

The Nez Perce feed the explorers and help them build canoes and navigate the rapids of Columbia, then spend two months hosting them the following spring, before leading them back across the snowbound mountains.

The Nez Perce befriend American fur trappers, invite missionaries, and even help the U.S. in its wars with neighboring tribes.

Seventeen years later, when the U.S. military forces all Nez Perce bands onto a reservation, the last great Indian war breaks out.