A New York Times review: “The core tension that Baker (no relation to his subject) and Glasser must overcome in The Man Who Ran Washington is making James Baker — the Washington insider, Republican stalwart and statesman who played an indisputably central role in shaping major events for a half-century — seem relevant today…”
“Yet the life story of the man Barack Obama’s national security adviser Thomas Donilon calls ‘the most important unelected official since World War II’ is relevant and timely for two reasons. The first is that it provides deep insight into Baker’s strengths at diplomacy — skills that will become even more important as America’s influence ebbs in the coming years…”
“The second reason this book matters now is that even though Baker sees himself as temperamentally and philosophically opposite to Donald Trump, his silence in the face of Trump’s outrages reflects the broader complicity of the so-called ‘Republicans who know better.'”
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