James A. Baker
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Websites : Baker Institute, U.S. Department of the Treasury
James A. Baker, III, the 61st U.S. secretary of state, is a senior partner with the law firm Baker Botts L.L.P. He is the author of The Politics of Diplomacy (1995), and Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics! Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life (2006), and the co-author of The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward—A New Approach (2006).
Primary Contributions (1)
It’s sometimes easy to despair about the future of mankind. Global climate change may make large portions of the planet uninhabitable. There are enough nuclear weapons to kill the world’s population several times over. Artificial intelligence is a potential threat to human control over our own…
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Publications (2)
Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics! Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life (October 2006)
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.
The Politics of Diplomacy Revolution, War, and Peace, 1989-1992 (1995)
By any reckoning, James Baker's years as Secretary of State contained some of the most pivotal events of the second half of the twentieth century, and few men played as critical a role in so many of them as Baker himself. In this candid, revealing account, Baker uses his unique perspective to take us inside those events and the personalities involved in them: the collapse of Communism, the Berlin Wall, and the Soviet Union itself; the reunification of Germany; the end of conflict in Central America;...
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