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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385540558
ISBN-13
9780385540551
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16038307966
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Who Ran Washington : the Life and Times of James A. Baker III
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Political Process / General, United States / 20th Century, American Government / General, Political
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Yes
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
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Hardcover
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1.8 in
Item Weight
37.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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2019-038715
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Reviews
"Nobody was better at getting things done than James A. Baker. In a book that is at once fascinating, coolly revealing, and at moments touching, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have given us a biography worthy of one of the most important figures of the late American Century. If you want to understand power in Washington--or anywhere, for that matter--this is the book for you." --Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, authors of The Wise Men "To capture the sweep and relevance of one of the most influential figures in American life requires two of the great reporters and observers of our time. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have written a grand, precise, and engaging American tale that gallops from Houston Country Club to the convention floor, to the Oval Office and all over the globe, capturing James Baker's ambition, influence, and style as well as telling the story of power and America at the end of an age." --John Dickerson, author of The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency "Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's The Man Who Ran Washington is an erudite, searching, affectionate biography. Showcasing elegant writing, critical detachment, and encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. presidential history, every page glows with excellence. It's an epic study of how one brazen Texan married the crude American political power dynamic with old-fashioned velvet diplomacy to help win the Cold War. A stunning achievement!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race "No one has ever captured James Baker's historical importance and essential nature as well as Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have in this superlatively reported history. This is a history not only of a man but of late twentieth century politics in America, and though there are some things I saw from a different angle, that isn't the point. The point is that a great history of a serious man has been produced, and deserves huzzahs and cheers." --Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of What I Saw at the Revolution " The Man Who Ran Washington is a must-read tour de force of political history and biography. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, two of our best journalists and scholars, bring us the life of one of the nation's most important secretaries of state and presidential counselors, showing James Baker near the center of more than thirty years of important American and world history." --Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War, "A masterclass in political biography." --The Economist "An illuminating biographical portrait of Mr. Baker, one that describes the arc of his career and, along the way, tells us something about how executive power is wielded in the nation''s capital. . . often has the feel of a novel." --The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling, comprehensive . . . The authors rightly highlight the dimensions of Baker''s illustrious career that show so much about what is broken in the current American political system." --The New York Times Book Review "The Man Who Ran Washington . . . will rank alongside it as among the very best books about American political life in the late 20th century." --The Washington Post "Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, a husband and wife team, deliver a masterly biography." --The Guardian "A fascinating look at political power." --The New York Times "Immensely informative, nuanced and judicious." --Minnesota Star Tribune "Nobody was better at getting things done than James A. Baker. In a book that is at once fascinating, coolly revealing, and at moments touching, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have given us a biography worthy of one of the most important figures of the late American Century. If you want to understand power in Washington--or anywhere, for that matter--this is the book for you." --Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, authors of The Wise Men "To capture the sweep and relevance of one of the most influential figures in American life requires two of the great reporters and observers of our time. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have written a grand, precise, and engaging American tale that gallops from Houston Country Club to the convention floor, to the Oval Office and all over the globe, capturing James Baker''s ambition, influence, and style as well as telling the story of power and America at the end of an age." --John Dickerson, author of The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency "A fascinating perspective on power and influence. . . in their nuanced portrait of Baker, he emerges as far more interesting than his taciturn image as White House chief of staff, secretary of state, secretary of treasury." -- The National Book Review "A riveting and, at times, moving read." --Derek Burney, Policy Magazine "Peter Baker and Susan Glasser''s The Man Who Ran Washington is an erudite, searching, affectionate biography. Showcasing elegant writing, critical detachment, and encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. presidential history, every page glows with excellence. It''s an epic study of how one brazen Texan married the crude American political power dynamic with old-fashioned velvet diplomacy to help win the Cold War. A stunning achievement!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race "No one has ever captured James Baker''s historical importance and essential nature as well as Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have in this superlatively reported history. This is a history not only of a man but of late twentieth century politics in America, and though there are some things I saw from a different angle, that isn''t the point. The point is that a great history of a serious man has been produced, and deserves huzzahs and cheers." --Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of What I Saw at the Revolution " The Man Who Ran Washington is a must-read tour de force of political history and biography. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, two of our best journalists and scholars, bring us the life of one of the nation''s most important secretaries of state and presidential counselors, showing James Baker near the center of more than thirty years of important American and world history." --Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War "In the best of the biographic tradition, the authors tell of an important and consequential man in a consequential era." --Neil Hassler, RealClearDefense, "A masterclass in political biography." --The Economist "An illuminating biographical portrait of Mr. Baker, one that describes the arc of his career and, along the way, tells us something about how executive power is wielded in the nation's capital. . . often has the feel of a novel." --The Wall Street Journal "Enthralling, comprehensive . . . The authors rightly highlight the dimensions of Baker's illustrious career that show so much about what is broken in the current American political system." --The New York Times Book Review "A fascinating look at political power." --The New York Times "Immensely informative, nuanced and judicious." --Minnesota Star Tribune "Nobody was better at getting things done than James A. Baker. In a book that is at once fascinating, coolly revealing, and at moments touching, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have given us a biography worthy of one of the most important figures of the late American Century. If you want to understand power in Washington--or anywhere, for that matter--this is the book for you." --Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, authors of The Wise Men "To capture the sweep and relevance of one of the most influential figures in American life requires two of the great reporters and observers of our time. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have written a grand, precise, and engaging American tale that gallops from Houston Country Club to the convention floor, to the Oval Office and all over the globe, capturing James Baker's ambition, influence, and style as well as telling the story of power and America at the end of an age." --John Dickerson, author of The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency "Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's The Man Who Ran Washington is an erudite, searching, affectionate biography. Showcasing elegant writing, critical detachment, and encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. presidential history, every page glows with excellence. It's an epic study of how one brazen Texan married the crude American political power dynamic with old-fashioned velvet diplomacy to help win the Cold War. A stunning achievement!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race "No one has ever captured James Baker's historical importance and essential nature as well as Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have in this superlatively reported history. This is a history not only of a man but of late twentieth century politics in America, and though there are some things I saw from a different angle, that isn't the point. The point is that a great history of a serious man has been produced, and deserves huzzahs and cheers." --Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal columnist and author of What I Saw at the Revolution " The Man Who Ran Washington is a must-read tour de force of political history and biography. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, two of our best journalists and scholars, bring us the life of one of the nation's most important secretaries of state and presidential counselors, showing James Baker near the center of more than thirty years of important American and world history." --Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War, "Nobody was better at getting things done than James A. Baker. In a book that is at once fascinating, coolly revealing, and at moments touching, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser have given us a biography worthy of one of the most important figures of the late American Century. If you want to understand power in Washington--or anywhere, for that matter--this is the book for you." --Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, authors of The Wise Men "Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's The Man Who Ran Washington is an erudite, searching, affectionate biography. Showcasing elegant writing, critical detachment, and encyclopedic knowledge of U.S. presidential history, every page glows with excellence. It's an epic study of how one brazen Texan married the crude American political power dynamic with old-fashioned velvet diplomacy to help win the Cold War. A stunning achievement!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race " The Man Who Ran Washington is a must-read tour de force of political history and biography. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, two of our best journalists and scholars, bring us the life of one of the nation's most important secretaries of state and presidential counselors, showing James Baker near the center of more than thirty years of important American and world history." --Michael Beschloss, author of Presidents of War
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
973.92092
Synopsis
Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker , this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, no Republican won the presidency without his help, and the men he counseled in the Oval Office--Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush--defined more than one generation of American life. Campaign manager, chief of staff, treasury secretary, and ultimately secretary of state, James A. Baker III understood better than anyone how to make Washington work and how to pull the levers of power at home and abroad. A suave and profane Texas Democrat, Baker worked as a wealthy Houston lawyer until his best friend, George H. W. Bush, drew him into Republican politics. His first dramatic win was in 1976 as the delegate hunter who secured the Republican nomination for Ford against a challenge from Ronald Reagan. His next job, as Bush's campaign manager four years later, maneuvered Bush onto the ticket with Reagan and Baker into the most powerful office in Washington other than the Oval Office: White House chief of staff. In his years in the White House and in the cabinet, Baker was the avatar of a style of politics and governance that valued pragmatism and deal making over purity. He went from win to win--reforming the tax code, negotiating the first Middle East peace talks, managing the dissolution of the Soviet Union--until his capstone victory, as field marshal for the younger Bush's Florida recount battle, helped divide the country forever. In today's era of gridlock, The Man Who Ran Washington is an electrifying escape., 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. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations. A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. 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 in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan's White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. 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 governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. This masterly biography by two brilliant observers of the American political scene is destined to become a classic., 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. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations. A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. 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 in a Florida recount. He ran Ronald Reagan's White House and became the most consequential secretary of state since Henry Kissinger. 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 governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polarization. This masterly biography by two brilliant observers of the American political scene is destined to become a classic.
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E840.8.B315B35 2020
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