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.