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James Addison Baker III was one of the most influential people in Washington in the 20th Century. As campaign strategist, White House Chief of Staff, Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State, Baker left a larger-than-life mark on American politics and policy. Now, a definitive and best-selling new biography of Baker reveals the story of this preeminent power broker for the first time.

In this discussion, The New York Times' Peter Baker and New Yorker's Susan Glasser, authors of The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III will discuss who Baker was, what he accomplished at the end of the Cold War, and how his story can help us better understand 21st Century America, its divisions in Washington, and challenges in the wider world.

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SPEAKERS

Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and author of Days of Fire and The Breach.

Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of its weekly "Letter from Trump's Washington" as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Glasser and Baker's first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. Today they live in Washington, D.C., with their son.

MODERATOR

John Gans, Perry World House Director of Communications and Research, is the author of White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War.