'Work Hard, Study...and Keep Out of Politics!'

A revelatory memoir from one of the great political minds of our time. “Baker's book will interest political junkies on both sides of the aisle and remind them that party politics do not require disrespect between opponents.”− Library Journal The real inside story of why Gerald Ford did not ask Ronald Reagan to be his running mate in 1976−and why Reagan did not pick Ford in 1980; the battle over Florida 2000; the aborted White House job switch that inadvertently opened the door to the Iran-Contr