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By Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Doubleday, hardcover, 693 pp. with bibliography, notes and index. US$35.
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It seems safe to say that if James A. Baker III had stayed with the Houston law firm of Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Bradley, Washington, DC, the United States and indeed the world would have been a considerably different place. ‘The Man Who Ran Washington’ seems remarkably accurate as a title for this book. From the time in 1969 when he rose from bored T…
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Now that the Trump administration has come to an unpleasant and ignominious close, a looming question remains: What will happen to the enmities incurred in what was a famously contentious administration? Many, if not most, former government officials stay in Washington, and they have long memories. Kennedy aide Chuck Daly recently wrote a memoir,
Make Peace or Die, nearly 60 years after the end of the Kennedy administration. With post-administration tenures potentially continuing for as many as six decades, outgoing officials need to think about the enemies they made while in office, and what to do about them after the administration ends.
(Bloomberg Markets) To find out how finance executives are getting through the pandemic, Bloomberg Markets asked three leaders about some of their habits and recommendations. Here are their responses. Lori Heinel Deputy global chief investment officer, State Street Global Advisors What is your morning routine? I’m generally awake at 5 a.m. On a good day, I hop on the stationary bike or elliptical trainer while I am reading through the news or catching the morning broadcast. What did you get to do during the pandemic that you wouldn’t have done otherwise? I’ve been doing a lot more cooking baking bread, trying new recipes, and cooking (and delivering) meals for family members and close friends. Where are you most eager to travel for nonwork reasons? I can’t wait to go to Colorado or Utah to ski! A very close second is Iceland. When the pandemic is over, how will your life be different than it was before? I’ve learned to slow down a bit. I got a bird feeder a few months back,
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Transcript: Face the Nation book panel, December 27, 2020
The following is a transcript of an interview with authors Jon Meacham, Peter Baker, Susan Glasser and Isabel Wilkerson that aired Sunday, December 27, 2020, on Face the Nation.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We like to honor tradition on FACE THE NATION, and each year we talk to authors whose new books have all been named some of the year s best. Four of them join us now. Jon Meacham s new book is His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. Peter Baker and Susan Glasser are the co-authors of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III. And Isabel Wilkerson is with us to discuss her latest Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Good to see all of you. Isabel, I want to start with you. You tackle the very difficult subject of race in your book and which you describe a caste system in our country where you say skin color is really kind of the metric for where you fall in the hier
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