It’s titled “Who Can Save the ‘Today’ Show?” Read it here.

Here’s an exchange from April 2012 that stuck with me while I was reporting and writing the book:

What seems certain is that Lauer’s current “Today” contract will be his final one. His wife, Annette, wanted him to leave the show last year and stop splitting his time between their Upper East Side apartment, where he sleeps during the week, and their Hamptons home, where she lives with their three children. He decided to stay anyway. (An NBC spokeswoman denied this on Lauer’s behalf.) When I was introduced to Annette at a party a few weeks after his most recent contract was signed, I conveyed my enthusiasm for the show, saying, “I’ve been waking up with your husband for 15 years.” She shot back, “I have, too.” I brought up the new contract, and she said, somewhat bitterly, “Two more years, and then he’s mine.”