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Eleanor Clift
Political Analyst
NewsWeek

Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek. She reports on the White House, Congress and the various personalities who make up the Washington power structure as she is a member of the magazine's political team. She covered numerous Presidential campaigns including Reagan and Clinton, reports on the government’s response to terrorism, and regularly writes on women in politics. She was also the magazine's congressional and political correspondent for six years. In June 1992, she was named Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. She is currently assigned to cover the changing political scene in Washington as Republicans scramble to hold on to their majorities in the House and Senate, and Democrats try to figure out how to exploit the Bush administration's missteps.

Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group, and a political analyst for the Fox News Network. Playing herself, she has appeared in several films, including Independence Day, and Dave, as well as the CBS series, Murphy Brown.

Clift and her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, Washington columnist for The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, have co-authored two books. Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling (Scribner, 2000) is about the rise of women in politics and the prospects for a woman on the national ticket. Publisher's Weekly called it "a sharp insider's view of the quest to elect a female U.S. president...Melding the immediacy of a breaking news story with savvy investigative journalism." An updated edition of Madam President was published in paperback (Routledge Press) in 2003. War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics (Scribner, 1996) is available in paperback (Touchstone Books, 1997). The New York Times book review said "War Without Bloodshed unquestionably works as a road map through the byways of the Washington they don't teach in civics classes." Clift’s most recent work, Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment, tells the story of how women gained the vote.