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Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency is the first complete account that will stand the test of time. Baker takes the measure of Obama's achievements and disappointments in office and brings into focus the real legacy of the man who, as he described himself, "doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills. " With vivid color photographs by New York Times photographers and others of the events, major and minor, public and behind-the scenes, that defined Barack Obama's eight years in office, Obama: The Call of History is a portrait in full of America's first African-American president against the background of these tumultuous times.
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Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times responsible for covering President Trump and his administration and a political analyst for MSNBC. He has previously covered three other presidents for the Times and Washington Post -- Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is the author of six books, including "The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton" and "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House." With his wife, Susan B. Glasser of the New Yorker, he is the author of "The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III," released in September by Doubleday.
