BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times - The Washington Post - Fortune - Bloomberg From two of America\'s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A.
Their masterly biography is necessary reading and destined to become a classic..
Brilliantly crafted by Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker , The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington when Washington ran the world.
He negotiated with Democrats at home and Soviets abroad, rewrote the tax code, assembled the coalition that won the Gulf War, brokered the reunification of Germany, and helped bring a decades-long nuclear superpower standoff to an end.
Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker became an indispensable dealmaker after the election.
He ran Ronald Reagan\'s White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger.
Bush in a Florida recount.
Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford\'s campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W.
Bush\'s tennis partner, Baker had never worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine.
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A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H.
For a quarter century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency or ran the White House without the advice of James Addison Baker III.
Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times - The Washington Post - Fortune - Bloomberg From two of America\'s most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A
