Richard Wolffe

Richard L. Wolffe
Born	(1968-09-17) 17 September 1968 Birmingham, England
Education	Oxford University
Occupation	Journalist
Notable credit	MSNBC
Spouse	Paula Cuello

Richard L. Wolffe (born 17 September 1968) is a journalist, a corporate lobbyist, a political analyst on MSNBC, and author of the Barack Obama book Renegade: The Making of a President (Crown, June 2009).

Background

Wolffe covered the entire length of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign for Newsweek magazine, traveling with the candidate and his inner circle from his announcement through election day, 21 months later.

As a political analyst on MSNBC, he appears frequently on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Hardball. On NBC, he has been featured as a political commentator on Meet The Press and TODAY. He features prominently in the forthcoming HBO documentary on the Obama campaign, and played a leading role in the HBO documentary of the 2000 Bush campaign, Journeys With George. He previously appeared on CNN and Fox News, as well as international media including British, Canadian and Australian television.

He now writes regularly for The Daily Beast.

As Newsweek’s senior White House correspondent, his cover stories included What He Believes (on Obama’s faith) Black & White (about Obama and racial politics), Bush In The Bubble (after Hurricane Katrina) and Weight of the World (how Bush handled the Lebanon war). Wolffe joined Newsweek in November 2002 as diplomatic correspondent, covering foreign policy and international affairs. In the 2004 presidential election, he covered the Howard Dean campaign before switching to John Kerry.

Before Newsweek, Wolffe was a senior journalist at the Financial Times, serving as its deputy bureau chief and U.S. diplomatic correspondent in Washington. He reported on U.S. foreign policy, covered the Microsoft antitrust trial, as well as regulatory and business issues at Treasury, the Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission.

In April 2009, he joined Public Strategies, a business advisory firm, as Senior Strategist.

Wolffe is the co-author of The Victim’s Fortune, (HarperCollins, 2002), about the deals that led to billions of dollars in compensation to the Nazis’ victims in the late 1990s. He also co-authored two Spanish cookbooks, Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America (Clarkson Potter in the US and Planeta in Spain, 2005) and Made in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen (Clarkson Potter, 2008). He has also written for food magazines such as Food Arts and Food & Wine. He authored a book on Obama's campaign called Renegade: The Making of a President.

In July 2009, Richard Wolffe guest hosted a few episodes of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He came under fire shortly afterward from columnist Glenn Greenwald and liberal pundit Ana Marie Cox due to his position at Public Strategies as a "paid lobbyist." Olbermann regularly criticized Fox News for having lobbyists on their network, so having Wolffe guest host Countdown was seen by Greenwald as "sleazy." Olbermann has since apologized, claiming he was caught "flat-footed" and announcing that Wolffe would no longer appear on Countdown until his activities outside of MSNBC are made clear.

Born in in Birmingham, England, Wolffe is a 1992 graduate of Oxford University, first-class honors, in English and French literature.

Personal life

Wolffe lives in Washington DC with his wife, Paula Cuello, and their three children.

Bibliography

• Wolffe, Richard (June, 2009). Renegade: The Making of a President. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0307463128. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
• Andrés, José (November, 2008). Made in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 978-0307382634. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Andrés, José (November, 2005). Tapas: A Taste Of Spain In America. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 978-1400053599. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Authers, John (July, 2003). The Victim’s Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0060936877. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

External links

• Richard Wolffe's website
• Richard Wolffe, Senior White House Correspondent
• "User Profile for Richard Wolffe," Take Back America 2007 conference

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