An Evening With Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

Dec. 13, 2022 - Veteran Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser joined us in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium to discuss their new book, The Divider. They were interviewed by LBJ Foundation CEO Mark K. Updegrove.

About the speakers:
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach. Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a CNN global affairs analyst. Their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. They also coauthored The Man Who Ran Washington, a New York Times bestseller. They live in Washington, D.C.

About the book:
The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale—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 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.