The Man Who Ran Washington
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker(no relation), Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and his wife, Susan Glasser, Staff Writer for The New Yorker. Bill says its among the best political biographies he has ever read. And he's read a lot. Baker, Glasser and Bill explore a time in DC when things got done before Newt Gingrich tore it all down. Baker worked for presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush and Bush. But not Trump. Glasser and Baker give their deeply reported assessments of Trump right now,
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| 1:09.1 | It's no wonder that after four years of Donald Trump in the White House and Mitch McConnell |
| 1:13.2 | as Senate leader, no wonder we're feeling so cynical, maybe even hopeless about politics. |
| 1:20.2 | But reading the new book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, I was reminded that it is possible |
| 1:26.5 | to get things done in politics, and it is not |
| 1:29.6 | impossible for Democrats and Republicans to work together for the common good. They've written a |
| 1:35.9 | great new biography of former Secretary of State, James Baker, which is, no doubt, one of the best |
| 1:41.8 | political biographies I've ever read, and I've read a lot of them. |
| 1:46.5 | Title of the book is The Man Who Ran Washington, The Life and Times of James A. Baker III. |
| 1:53.9 | It's a great story with a hopeful and inspiring message. |
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