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Robert Draper
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Robert Draper

Robert Draper is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and National Geographic and a correspondent to GQ. He is the author of several books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. He lives in Washington, DC.

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November 19, 2008
I have a longtime obsession with the white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in northeastern Italy. They are the country's best but...
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When the Tea Party Came to Town will be released on May 21, 2013 in Trade Paperback
May 21, 2013
When the Tea Party Came to Town is now available in Trade Paperback
May 21, 2013
Excerpt:
Prologue from When the Tea Party Came to Town
Jan 26, 2013
May 03, 2012
When the Tea Party Came to Town will be released on April 24, 2012 in eBook
Apr 24, 2012
When the Tea Party Came to Town is now available in eBook
Apr 24, 2012
When the Tea Party Comes to Town will be released on April 24, 2012 in
Apr 24, 2012
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Apr 24, 2012
Do Not Ask What Good We Do will be released on April 24, 2012 in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook
Apr 24, 2012
Do Not Ask What Good We Do is now available in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook
Apr 24, 2012
Excerpt:
Prologue from Dead Certain
Mar 09, 2009
Mar 09, 2009
Dead Certain will be released on March 25, 2008 in
Mar 25, 2008
Dead Certain is now available in
Mar 25, 2008
Dead Certain will be released on September 04, 2007 in
Sep 04, 2007
Dead Certain is now available in
Sep 04, 2007

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Oregonian, May 21, 2013
...Robert Draper wrote a really good book with a really bad title last year, and his publisher was smart enough to change it for the paperback. "Do Not Ask What Good...
Final Call, April 16, 2013
...brakes on Obama’s legislative platform. The participants in the four-hour meeting, according to New York Times writer Robert Draper, included Newt Gingrich, former Romney running mate Paul Ryan, and House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor...
MSN Entertainment, April 11, 2013
...Network To that end, Ostroff has been dipping into the Condé Nast archives. She and Steckler dusted off Robert Draper’s 2002 GQ article The Horse Whisperer (unrelated to the 1998 Robert Redford movie of the same name), about a Kentucky prison...
Yahoo! News, March 6, 2013
...during the campaign. Can you explain why? Stevens: This was a piece of reporting by my old pal Robert Draper in The New York Times Magazine that gave the wrong impression to some reader[s]. I joined Twitter shortly after the service was launched and...
The New Republic Online, February 24, 2013
...anyone to step down. Same thing for Hoyer and Clyburn. So grow some balls and run against them.” Robert Draper is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a correspondent for GQ. His most recent book is Do Not Ask What Good We Do:...
Media Matters for America, February 20, 2013
...Development. It was against that backdrop of routine right-wing dysfunction that the Times published its lengthy article. Author Robert Draper argued -- and many Republican operatives agreed -- that the GOP's perennial online failures have made it...
American Spectator, February 19, 2013
...from obsolescence?” As Ronald Reagan might have said: Well, there they go again. Consider this fairy tale from Robert Draper that was the cover story in last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine . A story in theory about the low-tech GOP and the...
Moree Champion, May 22, 2013
...Peter Duncan, Edna Craigie, Tom French, Lyall Munro, Brenda Porter, Shirley Duncan, Richard Swan, Mary Swan, Elaine Sampson, Robert Draper, William Grahame, Barry Sampson, Jim French, Gloria French and Greg Sampson. • Nominations for Non-Aboriginal...
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal, May 22, 2013
...Schoellkopf power plant. Miraculously, 41 Niagara Mohawk employees on duty during the rockslide escaped. One man did not. Robert Draper’s body was recovered near the Whirlpool rapids one month later. Charges of criminal negligence and manslaughter were...
Oregonian, May 21, 2013
...Robert Draper wrote a really good book with a really bad title last year, and his publisher was smart enough to change it for the paperback. "Do Not Ask What Good...
Northern Echo, May 20, 2013
...fear this prompt action will also result in delivery drivers falling victim to parking tickets. Brothers Gordon and Robert Draper, who run Bondgate Books, said they were appalled at the crackdown and called for a permit scheme to be introduced which...
Government Executive, May 16, 2013
...For Obama, we knew from the get-go that he had no Republicans willing to work with him. As Robert Draper pointed out in his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do, key GOP leaders such as Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan determined on inauguration eve in January 2009...
American Enterprise Institute, May 12, 2013
...For Obama, we knew from the get-go that he had no Republicans willing to work with him. As Robert Draper pointed out in his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do, key GOP leaders such as Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan determined on inauguration eve in January 2009...
Atlantic Monthly, May 9, 2013
...For Obama, we knew from the get-go that he had no Republicans willing to work with him. As Robert Draper pointed out in his book Do Not Ask What Good We Do, key GOP leaders such as Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan determined on inauguration eve in January 2009...