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Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts is a political analyst for ABC News and NPR. During her more than 30 years in broadcasting, she has won numerous awards and honors, including two Emmy Awards, induction into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and a citation from the American Women in Radio and Television as of one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, she and her husband, Steven V. Roberts, write a weekly newspaper column, are contributing editors to USA Magazine, and wrote The New York Times bestseller From This Day Forward (2000). She is also the author of the bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters (1998) and her recent book, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation (W. Morrow, 2004). Ms. Roberts and her husband live in Washington, D. C.