Peter Braestrup

Peter Braestrup (June 8, 1929 – August 10, 1997) was a correspondent for *The New York Times* and *The Washington Post*, founding editor of the *Wilson Quarterly*, and later senior editor and director of communications for the Library of Congress. Retiring from journalism in 1973, he founded the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' *Wilson Quarterly*, and in 1989 moved to the Library of Congress. Braestrup's 1977 Freedom House-sponsored book, the two-volume *Big Story*, criticized US media coverage of the …