Alter is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies,” “The Promise: President Obama, Year One” and “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope.”

Since 1996, Alter has been an analyst and contributing correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. He spent 28 years as a columnist and senior editor at Newsweek, where he wrote more than 50 cover stories. Alter is now a twice-monthly columnist for the Daily Beast. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, Esquire and Bloomberg View, among other publications.

He is also an executive producer of “Alpha House,” a half-hour political comedy created by Garry Trudeau that stars John Goodman. The show is available on Amazon.com.

Alter is currently working on a biography of former President Jimmy Carter and is producing a documentary about the lives of legendary New York journalists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill.

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