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Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute & Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 2012-2014.
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Congressional correspondent for The Washington Sun. Former Washington Post, Roll Call. https://www.washingtonsun.com/paul-kane
Author, THE CONFIDANTES: Secrets, Scandals, & the Presidents’ Personal Secretaries, out March 2. Author of the #1 NYT bestseller THE RESIDENCE — now an Emmy-nominated Netflix series — and WE THE WOMEN, with Norah O'Donnell. Host, HOW SHE LED TO ME.
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55th Governor of New Jersey
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