Mac Baldrige

Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when Japan and Europe, fully recovered from wartime devastation, threatened America’s position as the number one economy in the world. Manufacturing was in decline; traditional industries were being beaten by foreign competitors. Mac Baldrige, a successful businessman (and card-carrying member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association) from Connecticut, became Secretary of Commerce charged with resolving this problem. This book recounts the abbreviated Washington career of an American original during the era Conservatives celebrate as “morning in America.”

Chris Black is a writer and communications consultant. She was a political reporter for more than thirty years and worked at the Boston Globe and as a White House and Congressional Correspondent for Cable Network News (CNN). B. Jay Cooper met Baldrige while working as a reporter in Waterbury, Connecticut, and followed him to the White House as his speechwriter. Cooper then became director of public affairs at the Commerce Department and later worked as a deputy press secretary for Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

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