The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

From New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser come the highly anticipated THE MAN WHO RAN WASHINGTON: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (Doubleday) — 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.