Peter Baker

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Career

Baker worked with the Washington Times for two years after college. He joined the Washington Post in 1988 as a reporter covering Virginia politics. He spent 20 years in White House coverage of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush's presidencies. Baker co-authored the paper's first story about the Clinton-Lewinsky affair during his first visit to the White House and served as the newspaper's lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle. He then published his first book, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, a New York Times bestseller based on his coverage of the impeachment proceedings in Congress. He covered the struggles of Bush's second term, from the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina to Supreme Court nomination campaigns and the economy in his upcoming White House assignment.

Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, spent four years as Moscow bureau chiefs chronicling Vladimir Putin's rise, the rise of Russian democracy, the Second Chechen War, the terrorist assault on a theater in Moscow, and the Beslan school hostage crisis. Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. After September 11, 2001, he became the first American newspaper journalist to cover rebel-controlled northern Afghanistan, and he spent the next eight months covering the fall of the Taliban and the emergence of a new government. He spent six months in the Middle East, reporting from inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and around the region before embedding with the US Marines as they drove toward Baghdad.

Baker's second book, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the Decline of Revolution, published by Scribner in May 2005, a comprehensive account of Vladimir Putin's reignation of power during his first term as President of Russia. It was later named by The Washington Post Book World as one of the Top Books of 2005. He received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award for his "exceptionally trenchant analysis" of the achievements and shortfalls of President George W. Bush's second term in office when he was White House correspondent.

Baker began working for The New York Times in 2008, after 20 years with The Washington Post. He was given the 2011 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his "remarkable run" of extensive coverage of President Obama's first year. In 2015, he received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and Aldo Beckman Memorial Award.

Baker's third book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, was published in October 2013, a comprehensive summary of George W. Bush's two-term presidency. The New York Times Book Review named it as one of the Top Books of 2013 a short time after. Through New York Times/Callaway, he published his fourth book, Obama: The Call of History, a coffeetable book about President Barack's two terms in office. It was nominated for an Outstanding Literary Achievement in November 2017 - Biography/Autobiography.

Baker was reassigned back to the White House bench for the incoming Trump administration after being briefly named as the Jerusalem bureau chief for the Times in December 2016.

In October 2018, Baker, Jonathan Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Jeffrey A. Engel co-authored an article with Random House titled Impeachment: An American History. In May 2019, a new and greatly expanded version of the Obama book will be published as a regular book. In 2020, He and Glasser wrote a biography of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, Jr., which was released by Doubleday.

Baker, a regular panelist on PBS' Washington Week, in addition to his MSNBC appearances.

The Divider: Trump in the White House, a third book coauthored by his wife, Susan Glasser, in September 2022, was released.

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