John T. Shaw has covered Congress since 1991 as a congressional correspondent and vice president with Market News International and as a contributing writer for the Washington Diplomat magazine. He is the author of The Ambassador: Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat and Washington Diplomacy: Profiles of People of World Influence. He has been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and is a frequent commentator for C-SPAN and public radio.

Author John Shaw's carefully researched, readable picture of Lugar's policy oversight shows that bipartisanship and public service need not be oxymorons in a cynical political age.(National Catholic Reporter) ...[D]elves deeply into Lugar's foreign policy work, and Shaw finds some criticism of the otherwise well-regarded senator—particularly on the Iraq war, which Lugar questioned, but didn't cross his party on.(Washington Post "In the Loop") [A] well-researched account. . . . [Shaw] points out weaknesses in Lugar's career. . . [and] gives a convincing description of Lugar's 'considerable legislative legacy.'(Publishers Weekly)

John T. Shaw has covered Congress since 1991 as a congressional correspondent and vice president with Market News International and as a contributing writer for the Washington Diplomat magazine. He is the author of The Ambassador: Inside the Life of a Working Diplomat and Washington Diplomacy: Profiles of People of World Influence. He has been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow and is a frequent commentator for C-SPAN and public radio.

Author John Shaw's carefully researched, readable picture of Lugar's policy oversight shows that bipartisanship and public service need not be oxymorons in a cynical political age.(National Catholic Reporter) ...[D]elves deeply into Lugar's foreign policy work, and Shaw finds some criticism of the otherwise well-regarded senator—particularly on the Iraq war, which Lugar questioned, but didn't cross his party on.(Washington Post "In the Loop") [A] well-researched account. . . . [Shaw] points out weaknesses in Lugar's career. . . [and] gives a convincing description of Lugar's 'considerable legislative legacy.'(Publishers Weekly)