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Cokie Roberts, Author & Journalist

Cokie Roberts is a best-selling author and currently a contributor to NPR's Morning Edition and a Political Commentator for ABC News. Cokie co-anchored ABC's This Week with Sam Donaldson from 1996-2002. She's won numerous awards, including three Emmys, and was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. Her new book, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868 was published in April.