 Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. She reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. She was assigned to Newsweek's Special Election Project, which assembled a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the 2000 presidential campaign and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic run for the U.S. Senate. The account was published in a special edition of Newsweek immediately following the November election, and then was expanded into the book Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling. 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, Murder at 1600, and Dave, as well as the CBS series, Murphy Brown. Clift and her husband, Tom Brazaitis, Washington columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, are co-authors of the book, Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling, published in 2000, about the rise of women in politics and the prospects for a woman on the national ticket. Their earlier book, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics, was published in 1996. CNN news analyst Jeff Greenfield said in The New York Times Book Review, "War Without Bloodshed unquestionably works as a road map through the byways of the Washington they don't teach in civics classes." Formerly Newsweek's White House correspondent, Ms. Clift also served as congressional and political correspondent for six years. She was a key member of the magazine's 1992 election team and followed Bill Clinton's campaign from the start. In June 1992, she was named Deputy Washington Bureau chief. According to Brill's Content, a journalism review, Ms. Clift is one of the most accurate predictors among the pundits on the political talk shows.
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