The George & Barbara Bush Foundation invite you to join us for a very special virtual event featuring New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser to discuss THE MAN WHO RAN WASHINGTON: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III - an unmatched case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power told through an account of one of the most significant and influential leaders in modern American government never to serve as president of the United States.
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are longtime Washington journalists and former foreign correspondents who have written for years about the intersection of politics and the world. Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst and a regular panelist on Washington Week on PBS. He has covered the last four presidents for The Times and The Washington Post and won all three major awards for White House coverage. Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of the weekly “Letter from Trump’s Washington” as well as a global affairs analyst for CNN. She previously was the editor of POLITICO and founder of the award-winning POLITICO Magazine. Before that, she was executive editor of Foreign Policy magazine following a long stint at The Post, where she was assistant managing editor for national news and editor of the paper’s Outlook section.
This conversation will be moderated by Presidential Historian and Bestselling Author, Michael Beschloss, who is an award-winning historian, scholar of leadership and bestselling author of ten books - most recently the acclaimed New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Presidents of War.
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.
If you are interested in reading the book before the event, you can buy from the George Bush Museum Store located in College Station, TX. Click here for link to purchase the book.
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