Baker Peter, Glasser Susan The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III 9780385540551

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Автор: Baker Peter, Glasser Susan
Название: The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
ISBN: 9780385540551
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0385540558
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 720
Вес: 1.04 кг.
Дата издания: 12.05.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 167 x 244 x 50
Подзаголовок: The life and times of james a. baker iii
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: From two of Americas 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 Americas destiny for generations.

A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. W. Bushs 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 Fords 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 Reagans 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 todays 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.

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, Baker Peter, Glasser Susan