Hardball 
Subtitle: How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
Edition: 1st Touchstone Ed., Rev. and Updated edition
Publisher: Free Press; Simon & Schuster, Limited
Published: November 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780684845593
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Politics/International Relations; Politics; History; United States - 20th Century; Politics / Current Events; Politics, Practical; USA; Politics - Current Events; Careers - General; Government - U.S. Government; Political Process - General; Political Science / General; United States; 1945-; 1945-1989; Politicians; Politics and government
First sentence: Bobby Baker was the last fellow you would expect a young idealist of the 1960s to want to meet.