Mark Warner the Dealmaker: From Business Success to the Business of Governing

When Mark Warner left office in 2006 with an 80 percent approval rating, TIME magazine called him one of America's Five Best Governors. Virginia was ranked the best—managed state in the nation, the best state for business and the best state for educational opportunity. When Warner began his term in 2002, the commonwealth was in the midst of its worst fiscal crisis in forty years, and partisan bickering had brought political discourse in Richmond to a standstill. An entrepreneur from a young...