The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

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 legend…

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