Dispatches from the Eastern Front: A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama

How does one arrive at a life in politics and policy? What happens to one’s ideals when confronted with the reality that, in Washington, the only way to get things done is compromise? Who are the men and women who help shape our national agenda, and what drives their work? Dispatches from the Eastern Front provides fascinating, intensely personal, yet universal answers to these central questions.

Recounting four decades inside Washington politics, Gerald Felix Warburg brings remarkable cando...