Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the White House Bureau Chief at ''

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'', where he has been working since 2005.

Early life and education

Rucker is a 2002 graduate of the St. Andrew's School in

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, where he was valedictorian. In 2017, the school gave him its Distinguished Alumni Award. Rucker received a history degree from

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in 2006, where he worked for the ''

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'' as a reporter and editor.

Career

He has worked at the ''Post'' since 2005. Initially covering a variety of beats, he became a White House correspondent and was promoted to White House bureau chief in 2014. He covered the entire

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for the ''Post'', as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He is also a political analyst for

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and

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and a regular guest on PBS news shows. Jim Wertz, the chairman of the Erie County Democratic Party, called him "one of Washington, D.C.'s most respected journalists." He is the co-author, with his ''Post'' colleague Carol Leonnig, of two best-selling books about the Trump administration. The first, ''

A Very Stable Genius ''A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America'' is a 2020 book by '' Washington Post'' reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. The book presents an account of the first three years of the presidency of Donald Trump. It focuses ...

.'' is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, ''

I Alone Can Fix It ''I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year'' is a nonfiction book written by ''Washington Post'' reporters Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker. It was published by Penguin Press in 2021 and was a ''New York Times'' bestsel ...

,'' covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath.

Awards

* He was part of the ''Washington Post'' staff that won the

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for coverage of the

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. * He was part of the ''Washington Post'' staff that won a 2017 special

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for "revealing ties between the Trump campaign and Kremlin-connected Russians that gave rise to the investigation into possible collusion during the 2016 election." * He and his ''Post'' colleague

Ashley Parker Ashley Rebecca Parker (born September 18, 1982) is an American journalist, a White House reporter for '' The Washington Post'', and senior political analyst for MSNBC. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based politics reporter for '' The New ...

shared the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.

Bibliography

* '' A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America'' (2020)

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; ; co-written with Carol Leonnig * '' I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year''. Engels 2021, ; co-written with Carol Leonnig

References

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