FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For information call: Clifford Laube at (845) 486-7745

The Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Presidential Library and Museum

presents a conversation and book signing 

with best-selling author and

Chief White House Correspondent 

for the New York Times

Peter Baker

author of OBAMA: THE CALL OF HISTORY

Friday, October 6, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

Henry A. Wallace Center at the

FDR Presidential Library and Home

Registration required. Click here to register.

HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is pleased to present a conversation and book signing with  best-selling author and Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times  Peter Baker author of  OBAMA: THE CALL OF HISTORY. The program will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, October 6, 2017 in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. Following the presentation, Baker will be available to sign copies of his book.  This is a free public event but registration is required. Registration required. Click here to register.

Synopsis:

OBAMA: THE CALL OF HISTORY is Peter Baker's authoritative history of the Obama presidency. 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 of the events -- both 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.

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  Washington Post; 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.

Copies of Baker's book will be available for sale after the talk. Please contact Cliff Laube at (845) 486-7745 or email  clifford.laube@nara.gov with questions about the event.