Peter Baker

Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world.In the latter half of the twentieth century, no Republican won the presidency without his help, and the men he counseled in the Oval Office--Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush--defined more than one generation of American life. Campaign manager, chief of staff, treasury secretary, and ultimately secretary of state, James A. Baker III understood better than anyone how to make Washington work and how to pull the levers of power at home and abroad. A suave and profane Texas Democrat, Baker worked as a wealthy Houston lawyer until his best friend, George H. W. Bush, drew him into Republican politics. His first dramatic win was in 1976 as the delegate hunter who secured the Republican nomination for Ford against a challenge from Ronald Reagan. His next job, as Bush's campaign manager four years later, maneuvered Bush onto the ticket with Reagan and Baker into the most powerful office in Washington other than the Oval Office: White House chief of staff. In his years in the White House and in the cabinet, Baker was the avatar of a style of politics and governance that valued pragmatism and deal making over purity. He went from win to win--reforming the tax code, negotiating the first Middle East peace talks, managing the dissolution of the Soviet Union--until his capstone victory, as field marshal for the younger Bush's Florida recount battle, helped divide the country forever. In today's era of gridlock, The Man Who Ran Washington is an electrifying escape.

The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.The bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired.The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan’s prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump—how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.The Divider is based on unprecedented access to key players, from President Trump himself to cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, Trump family members, congressional leaders, foreign officials and others, some of whom have never told their story until now.--penguinrandomhouse

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a gripping and intimate journey through the eight years of the Bush and Cheney administration in a tour-de-force narrative of a dramatic and controversial presidency.Theirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger: a bold and untested president and his seasoned, relentless vice president. Confronted by one crisis after another, they struggled to protect the country, remake the world, and define their own relationship along the way. In Days of Fire, Peter Baker chronicles the history of the most consequential presidency in modern times through the prism of its two most compelling characters, capturing the elusive and shifting alliance of George Walker Bush and Richard Bruce Cheney as no historian has done before. He brings to life with in-the-room immediacy all the drama of an era marked by devastating terror attacks, the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and financial collapse. The real story of Bush and Cheney is a far more fascinating tale than the familiar suspicion that Cheney was the power behind the throne. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with key players, and thousands of pages of never-released notes, memos, and other internal documents, Baker paints a riveting portrait of a partnership that evolved dramatically over time, from the early days when Bush leaned on Cheney, making him the most influential vice president in history, to their final hours, when the two had grown so far apart they were clashing in the West Wing. Together and separately, they were tested as no other president and vice president have been, first on a bright September morning, an unforgettable “day of fire” just months into the presidency, and on countless days of fire over the course of eight tumultuous years. Days of Fire is a monumental and definitive work that will rank with the best of presidential histories. As absorbing as a thriller, it is eye-opening and essential reading.

In the tradition of Hedrick Smith's The Russians, Robert G. Kaiser's Russia: The People and the Power, and David Remnick's Lenin's Tomb comes an eloquent and eye-opening chronicle of Vladimir Putin's Russia, from this generation's leading Moscow correspondents. With the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia launched itself on a fitful transition to Western-style democracy. But a decade later, Boris Yeltsin's handpicked successor, Vladimir Putin, a childhood hooligan turned KGB officer who rose from nowhere determined to restore the order of the Soviet past, resolved to bring an end to the revolution. Kremlin Rising goes behind the scenes of contemporary Russia to reveal the culmination of Project Putin, the secret plot to reconsolidate power in the Kremlin. During their four years as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser witnessed firsthand the methodical campaign to reverse the post-Soviet revolution and transform Russia back into an authoritarian state. Their gripping narrative moves from the unlikely rise of Putin through the key moments of his tenure that re-centralized power into his hands, from his decision to take over Russia's only independent television network to the Moscow theater siege of 2002 to the "managed democracy" elections of 2003 and 2004 to the horrific slaughter of Beslan's schoolchildren in 2004, recounting a four-year period that has changed the direction of modern Russia. But the authors also go beyond the politics to draw a moving and vivid portrait of the Russian people they encountered -- both those who have prospered and those barely surviving -- and show how the political flux has shaped individual lives. Opening a window to a country on the brink, where behind the gleaming new shopping malls all things Soviet are chic again and even high school students wonder if Lenin was right after all, Kremlin Rising features the personal stories of Russians at all levels of society, including frightened army deserters, an imprisoned oil billionaire, Chechen villagers, a trendy Moscow restaurant king, a reluctant underwear salesman, and anguished AIDS patients in Siberia. With shrewd reporting and unprecedented access to Putin's insiders, Kremlin Rising offers both unsettling new revelations about Russia's leader and a compelling inside look at life in the land that he is building. As the first major book on Russia in years, it is an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of the country and promises to shape the debate about Russia, its uncertain future, and its relationship with the United States.

Nominated for a 2017 NAACP Image Award: Best Biography or Memoir 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.

The Washington Post reporter who first broke the Monica Lewinsky story offers his own perspective on the ensuing scandal, impeachment, and media coverage. Reprint.

Have you ever realised that your voice could make you money? Working as a voiceover artist can give you a good, solid income, doing a fun and rewarding job, mostly working from your own recording studio at home! You may find yourself a natural at documentary or corporate narrations, TV and radio commercial scripts or longer projects such as audiobooks or eLearning.Are you good at putting on “funny” voices? Then channel your talents into recording character voices for video games or animations! The world of media production is ever expanding, and there are opportunities for English-speaking voice artists of all ages and types of voices.This book also includes a link to a completely free video-based course on voice training and setting up in voiceover work.Written by broadcast industry veteran Peter Baker, this book aimed at both the complete beginner and also at the voice artist who has set up a studio but who wants to boost their income to the next level. Packed with countless tips and basic and advanced techniques on performing, editing, and marketing your services to new clients, Voiceover Masterclass is your handbook for future success!

When it comes to marketing books these days, authors and publishers just can’t ignore the power of audio anymore. The growth in audiobooks continues at a phenomenal level, and if you’re a self-published author and you are not creating audiobook versions of your works, both past and present, you really are missing out a large part of your potential audience. But the whole process can get very complicated and expensive, if you don’t know what you’re doing. Peter Baker, from VoiceoverMasterclass.com presents this practical “how-to” guide for all authors whether they wish to narrate and record themselves or hire in a narrator / producer to take care of the entire audiobook production process. Everything is covered including adapting the manuscript for the audio medium; selecting the right choices offered by KDP and ACX; finding the right people to help you; drafting contracts and agreements; and the best way to work with narrators and to give practical and constructive feedback on their recordings. Also, if you’re the kind of author who can’t let go and would rather do absolutely everything themselves, Peter will show you how you can set up a studio, narrate, record, edit and upload yourself!

Quality sleep is absolutely essential to “charge our batteries” for the rigours of each day. The “reset” qualities of sleep helps the mind to focus, to be more creative and even to not allow the body to put on excess weight…yet so many people don’t achieve regular good sleep, and this leaves them feeling groggy, not able to concentrate, not enjoying life to the full and open to all sorts of horrendous chronic ailments and diseases. Millions are addicted to taking sleeping pills that don’t provide sleep of any quality, and a daily morning cup of strong coffee is also not the answer.Written by broadcaster Peter Baker, the book is the culmination of intense research into his own sleep problems when filming on location, with virtually every night in a different bed. It’s packed with scientific and medical facts and information about why we all need to sleep, and the best ways for achieving this astonishing and almost magical nightly “reset” of our bodies that helps to repair both physical but also mental damage.You'll learn how to work with your body, not against it, and a whole host of different practical techniques for getting to sleep. Also covered in the book are sleep issues as people age, difficult sleeping partners, night shift working, time zone crossing, foods and drink, choosing the right bed and mattress and also the importance of our dreams.

This book offers a collection of insights, musings, and enquiries into the non-dual or undivided nature of reality. It doesn’t make concessions to conventional beliefs or align with any particular tradition but is based instead on a radically direct and uncompromising investigation into the mind-blowing implications of the non-dual realisation. It delves deeper into these than many others have felt comfortable doing.This initially elusive realisation is evoked by exploring the many interrelated themes which point towards it, including the nature of being, imagination, emptiness, science, and identity. It is expressed through a variety of forms including essays, aphorisms, quotes, enquiries and verse.The revolution in seeing being invited here is profoundly liberating, yet this book contains no ‘hidden’ knowledge or insights which are not directly verifiable through authentic self-enquiry, and which are therefore surprisingly familiar and almost laughably obvious once remembered. The truth of who we are is already intimately known by everyone but is often obscured by the thoughts and theories with which our minds tend to complicate it. In the clear light of non-dual realisation confusing philosophical issues and existential problems are either resolved or dissolved.Written with clarity, attitude and heart this book plays with boundaries and genres rather than within them.It encourages the questioning and seeing through of illusions – without creating new ones to replace them.Containing a wealth of razor-sharp non-dual pointers it will make you think – and then remind you of that which is beyond both thinking and imagination – the unconditional presence and peace of your infinite beingness.

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This comprehensive book details how to set up your own voiceover business in your own home studio. With sections on voice training, creating powerful showreels, setting up your website and getting your first jobs in, the highly experienced voice artist Peter Baker will take your hand from complete beginner to pro as you work through the chapters. It really is possible to earn a yearly 6-figure income from recording a variety of scripts in your home studio, and you don't even need an exclusive LA agent to represent you! Learn the insider secrets and efficiency shortcuts of a veteran voice talent who will share sometimes unusual but powerful techniques to attract interesting, often fun and lucrative voice jobs, including acting for video games, tourism guides, fiction and factual audiobooks, TV and radio commercials and much more!

Children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) and/or autism who display behaviour that challenges are particularly vulnerable to being misunderstood and inappropriately supported, despite policy and best practice guidance. They are also vulnerable to having fewer opportunities to engage in society, having their quality of life reduced, experiencing abusive or coercive practice, and being placed in schools or services far from home, while the families of children whose behaviour challenges often remain likewise isolated and unheard. Understanding and Responding to Behaviour that Challenges in Intellectual Disabilities sets out to equip family members and support staff to better understand behaviours, and to help improve the quality of the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. It is split into four sections, each representing a crucial step in understanding behaviour that challenges. Part 1 presents fundamental approaches to thinking about and responding to behaviour that challenges. Part 2 is all about trying to understand the messages underpinning the behaviour. Part 3 is about putting into action the knowledge gained through exploring and assessment. Part 4 is reflective in nature and considers the real experiences arising from supporting people whose behaviour challenges and the implications. The second edition is a complete revision and updating of content, aiming to address key knowledge requirements and concerns of people working in the field, with opportunities for reflection and professional development. Case studies explore how to best to address issues in practice.

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