Peter Baker (author)
| Peter Baker | |
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| Born | 1967 (age 49–50) |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Subject | politics |
| Notable works |
The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House |
| Spouse | Susan Glasser |
The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton
Peter Baker (born 1967) is an American political writer and newspaper reporter who is the White House correspondent for The New York Times and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He was responsible for covering President Barack Obama and the Obama administration. After being assigned as Jerusalem bureau chief for the Times he was, in December 2016, reassigned to the White House beat for the incoming Trump Administration.
Baker was born in 1967, the son of Linda Henderson Gross (later Sinrod) and E. P. Baker. His father was a lawyer and his mother a computer programmer. He is a 1988 graduate of Oberlin College.
Prior to joining The New York Times in 2008, Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post, where he also covered the White House during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During his first tour at the White House, Baker co-authored the paper's first story about the Lewinsky scandal and served as the paper's lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle. During his next White House assignment, he covered the travails of Bush's second term, from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina to Supreme Court nomination fights and the economy.
In between stints at the White House, Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, spent four years as Moscow bureau chiefs, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin, the rollback of Russian democracy, the Second Chechen War and the terrorist attacks on a theater in Moscow and the Beslan school hostage crisis. Baker also covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was the first American newspaper journalist to report from rebel-held northern Afghanistan after Sept. 11, 2001, and he spent the next eight months covering the overthrow of the Taliban and the emergence of a new government. He later spent six months in the Middle East, reporting from inside Saddam Hussein's Iraq and around the region before embedding with the U.S. Marines as they drove toward Baghdad.
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