# Professor Simon Bowmaker's recent book, "When the President Calls," is spotlighted

1 Faculty News February 20, 2020 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [F](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00055-y)[orbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2020/02/20/are-university-policy-experts-good-for-society/#4998b9fc2234) -- "I am reading a delightful book by [Simon Bowmaker](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/simon-bowmaker), When the President Calls: Conversations with Economic Policymakers ( MIT Press, 2019). Bowmaker interviewed 35 former top government officials who worked in administrations as far back as Harry Truman and as recently as Donald Trump, most of whom also had strong ties to universities before and/or after government service."

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