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From the first page. Not just a stunning portrait of perhaps the most influential builder in world history. Every politician should read it. A majestic, even Shakespearean, drama about the interplay of power and personality. Important, awesome, compelling—these no longer summon the full flourish of trumpets this book deserves. It is extraordinary on many levels and certain to endure.
He is also an extraordinary writer. After reading page of his book The Power Broker, I gasped and read it again, then again. This, I thought, is how it should be done. One of the greatest nonfiction works ever written. Wagman, Cleveland Press. The most unlikely subjects—banking, ward politics, construction, traffic management, state financing, insurance companies, labor unions, bridge building—become alive and contemporary. It is cheap at the price and too short by half.
It is also essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduates interested in the history of Social and Political Thought. New to this Edition: - An additional introduction explaining the context of the first edition of Power: A Radical View - Two new chapters defending Lukes' original argument and assessing the main debates about power since - A detailed guide to further reading on essential concepts and key thinkers.
For a quarter-century, from the end of Watergate to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House without his advice. James Addison Baker III was the indispensable man for four presidents because he understood better than anyone how to make Washington work at a time when America was shaping events around the world. The Man Who Ran Washington is a page-turning portrait of a power broker who influenced America's destiny for generations.
A scion of Texas aristocracy who became George H. Bush's best friend on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, Baker had never even worked in Washington until a devastating family tragedy struck when he was thirty-nine. Within a few years, he was leading Gerald Ford's campaign and would go on to manage a total of five presidential races and win a sixth for George W.
Bush in a Florida recount. He negotiated with Democrats at home and Soviets abroad, rewrote the tax code, assembled the coalition that won the Gulf War, brokered the reunification of Germany and helped bring a decades-long nuclear superpower standoff to an end.
Ruthlessly partisan during campaign season, Baker governed as the avatar of pragmatism over purity and deal-making over division, a lost art in today's fractured nation. His story is a case study in the acquisition, exercise, and preservation of power in late twentieth-century America and the story of Washington and the world in the modern era--how it once worked and how it has transformed into an era of gridlock and polariza.
Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far.
Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.
As is all too often the case, the innocent found themselves victims of a violent struggle for political power. While proponents extol the creation of the ICC as a transformative victory for principles of international humanitarian law, critics have often characterized it as either irrelevant or dangerous in a world dominated by power politics.
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