[3] In February 2022, he published his first book, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted,[4] which was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice[citation needed] and was reviewed in The Washington Post[5] and The Guardian.
][citation needed] Peters earned his bachelor's degree in 2002 from the University of Michigan.
[9] In 2009, while assigned to the Albany bureau, he was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, for its coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Gov.
[12][13] His coverage of the Republican Party and the conservative movement for The Times became the basis for his book, Insurgency, which the Crown Publishing Group acquired in 2017.
[citation needed] Peters was one of several Times journalists featured in the 2018 Showtime documentary, The Fourth Estate.