 According to the Wall Street Journal, Larry J. Sabato is "probably the most quoted college professor in the land." Dr. Sabato is an election analyst, the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, and Director of the new University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow. After he received his B. A. in government from the University of Virginia as a Phi Beta Kappa in 1974, he did a year's graduate study in public policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Upon receipt of the Rhodes scholarship in 1975, he left Princeton to begin study at Queen's College, Oxford University. In less than two years he received his doctorate in politics from Oxford, and was invited to become a tutor (instructor) for students in the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) program. In January 1978 he was elected Lecturer in Politics at New College, Oxford. He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia in September 1978. Dr. Sabato's two latest books are TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM: The Elections of 1996, published by Allyn and Bacon in 1997 and the first published volume on the 1996 presidential and congressional campaigns; and DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics, published by Random House/Times Books in 1996. Topics covered include Newt Gingrich, the Christian Coalition, vote fraud, street money, political dirty tricks, and the need for reform. Prior to the publication of TOWARD THE MILLENNIUM and DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS, Dr. Sabato's best known book was entitled FEEDING FRENZY: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics. Published in 1991 and again in 1993 by the Free Press/Macmillan, the book received widespread attention nationally during the 1992 presidential election. Dr. Sabato has appeared on dozens of nationally broadcast television shows, including Nightline, Face the Nation, The Today Show, Good Morning America, 48 Hours, Larry King Live, and The Jim Lehrer News Hour. Dr. Sabato has served on many national and state commissions, including the National Commission for the Renewal of American Democracy; the U.S. Senate Campaign Finance Reform Panel; and the Governor's Commission on Campaign Finance Reform, Government Accountability, and Ethics.
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