Robert G. Kaiser papers, 1939-2013

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Biographical Note

Date	Event
1943, Apr. 7	Born, Washington, D.C.
1964	B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1964-2014	Reporter and editor, The Washington Post 1964-1967, Special correspondent, London, England 1967-1969, City desk reporter, Washington, D.C. 1969-1970, Foreign correspondent, Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam 1971-1974, Foreign correspondent, Moscow, Soviet Union 1974-1982, National staff reporter 1982-1985, Associate editor and editor of "Outlook" 1985-1990, Assistant managing editor for national news 1990-1991, Deputy managing editor 1991-1998, Managing editor 1998-2014, Associate editor and senior correspondent
1965, July 14	Married Hannah Jopling
1967	M.Sc., political science, London School of Economics
1974	Published Cold Winter, Cold War. New York: Stein and Day
1976	Published Russia: The People and the Power. New York: Atheneum
1978	Published with Jon Lowell Great American Dreams. New York: Harper & Row
1980	Published with Hannah Jopling Kaiser Russia from the Inside. New York: Dutton
1991	Published Why Gorbachev Happened. New York: Simon & Schuster
1994	Published The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
2002	Published with Leonard Downie Jr. The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril. New York: Knopf
2009	Published So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government. New York: Knopf
2013	Published Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't. New York: Vintage Books