It might be a scene from a movie--three powerful and secretive men sit in a private corner of an exclusive New York club, imperiously making decisions that affect the lives of millions of people. But the scene takes place in Albany, New York, and the exclusive members are the Governor, the Senate Majority Leader, and the Speaker of the Assembly of the New York State Legislature. Three Men in a Room is an insider’s expos� of how one of the country’s largest and most powerful governments--with the fourth-largest budget, behind only the federal government’s, California’s, and Texas’s--has become a model of corrupt, inefficient, and undemocratic governance.