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The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III -- Peter Baker, Paperback Jennifer Swanson and scouting for petrified woodBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times The Washington Post Fortune Bloomberg From two of America's most revered political journalists comes the definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. For a quarter century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency or ran the White House without