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An authoritative and lavishly illustrated history of Barack Obama´s presidency

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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.

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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 non-fiction 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 Glaser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin´s Russia and the End of the Revolution.

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