Jeffrey H. Birnbaum (born 1955) is an American

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and television commentator. He previously worked for ''

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'' and ''

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''. He also regularly appears as a political analyst for the

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Channel and long appeared as a regular panelist on ''Washington Week''. He is currently the head of the public relations division of the lobbying firm

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(Barbour, Griffith & Rogers).

Personal life

Birnbaum was born in

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, in 1955. He graduated as an

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from the

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in 1977. Birnbaum is married with three children.

Career

Early in his career, Birnbaum worked for ''

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'', working 16 years in a variety of positions, and leaving the ''Journal'' as White House correspondent. He then spent seven years as the chief of ''

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'' magazine's Washington bureau and two years, beginning in 1995, as a senior political correspondent for ''Fortune''’s sister publication, ''

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''. Birnbaum then worked as a columnist and feature writer at ''

'' from 2004 to 2008. Birnbaum then joined ''

'' as managing editor of digital in 2008. In January 2010, Birnbaum left the ''Times'' and went to work for the lobbying firm

Publications

Birnbaum is the author of four books. His latest, ''The Money Men'', examines campaign fund-raising and was published in 2000. His first book, ''Showdown at Gucci Gulch'', was written with Alan Murray in 1987. This classic chronicle of the

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won the American Political Science Association's coveted Carey McWilliams Award in 1988. In 1992, Birnbaum's second book, ''The Lobbyists'', was a ''Washington Post'' best seller. ''Madhouse'', Birnbaum's third book, about President Clinton's White House, was published in 1996.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Birnbaum, Jeffrey Living people 1955 births University of Pennsylvania alumni Writers from Scranton, Pennsylvania The Washington Post people The Wall Street Journal people American non-fiction writers Journalists from Pennsylvania 20th-century American journalists American television journalists American male journalists

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