Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!: Adventures And Lessons from an Unexpected Political Life - Hardcover

Baker, James Addison; Fiffer, Steve

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ISBN 10: 0399153772 ISBN 13: 9780399153778

Verlag: Putnam Pub Group, 2006

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A revelatory memoir by the former secretary of state and White House chief of staff describes his behind-the-scenes witness to numerous political machinations, in an account in which he discusses the Iran-Contra scandal, the Reagan assassination attempt, and the 2000 election in Florida. 100,000 first printing.

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James A. Baker III, served as Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush; Under Secretary of Commerce to Gerald Ford; Secretary of the Treasury to Reagan; and Secretary of State to Bush. He has also undertaken special envoy missions for George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on matters such as Iraqi debt relief and the conflict in the Western Sahara. He is presently a senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts, and honorary chairman of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. His previous book is The Politics of Diplomacy.

Steve Fiffer is the author, coauthor, or editor of fourteen books. He has written extensively for such publications as the New York Times and Chicago Tribune.

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• Verlag: Putnam Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0399153772
• ISBN 13: 9780399153778
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460
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