About the Author

As chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, Peter Baker covered the Obama presidency since its inception. He is the author of Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, named one of the five best nonfiction books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review and a Notable Book of the Year by the WashingtonPost; as well as The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton; and, with his wife, Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution.

Reviews

"Peter Baker dug up the best and worst moments of President Barack
Obama's two terms in office to masterfully weave into a condensed
account."--Lyne Lucien "The Daily Beast"

"Peter Baker's Obama: The Call of History is a masterfully written and stunningly illustrated remembrance of our forty-fourth president. Baker has emerged as the go-to journalist and sage on recent U.S. presidential events. Obama is a full-bore testimonial to Baker's graceful prose style, judicious reporting, and sterling history-minded analysis. Highly recommended!"--Douglas Brinkley "author of Rightful Heritage: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Land of America"

"Very likely not since tributes to the assassinated John F. Kennedy
will a book of photographs of a president so recently departed make
millions of Americans want to cry."--James Goodman "The New York Times Book Review"