7:00 PM, ET
WACA's Cover to Cover conference call on November 9, at 7:00 PM ET, featured Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, co-authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, and moderated by WACA President and CEO Bill Clifford.
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
“The Man Who Ran Washington” is the story of the amazing journey of a young, apolitical oil and gas lawyer from Houston who rose to become one of the most consequential secretaries of state in U.S. history. He served four U.S. presidents and helped a fifth one navigate a path from Florida to the Supreme Court and into the Oval Office. His Washington career was a triumph of what his biographers call “pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today’s fractured nation.”
This Cover to Cover event was hosted by Global Minnesota.
Peter Baker is an award-winning journalist who has covered Washington for more than 30 years. He is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times. Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker and has served as a top editor for several Washington publications as well as editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy. This is the second book the married couple has co-authored. Their 2005 book, “Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution,” chronicled the four years they spent as Washington Post bureau chiefs in Moscow.