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

Peter Baker

BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: 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 t...

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The Bulwark Podcast

The completion of this biography was set against the backdrop of Trump's rise and presidency, showing the agony of the Republican Party losing its perceived ideological foundation.

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No look that was actually one of the interesting sort of backdrops to finishing our work on the biography of Secretary Baker was that it was taking place during the rise and then the presidency of Don...

— Episode: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker: Trump's H...

Episode: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker: Trump's Hostile Tak...

The completion of this biography was set against the backdrop of Trump's rise and presidency, showing the agony of the Republican Party losing its perceived ideological foundation.

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No look that was actually one of the interesting sort of backdrops to finishing our work on the biography of Secretary Baker was that it was taking place during the rise and then the presidency of Donald Trump

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