Power Down

BEN COES is the author of the critically acclaimed Power Down and Coup d'Etat. He is a former speechwriter for the George H . W. Bush White House, worked for Boone Pickens, was a fellow at the JFK School of Government at Harvard, a campaign manager for Mitt Romney's run for governor in 2002, and is currently a partner in a private equity company out of Boston. He lives in Wellesley, Mass.