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DESCRIPTION:Gwen Ifill is the well-known PBS moderator and managing editor of 
 Washington Week and senior correspondent of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. 
 Before coming to PBS, she was chief congressional and political 
 correspondent for NBC News, and had been a reporter for The New York Times, 
 The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and Boston Herald American. \n\nIn 
 THE BREAKTHROUGH, this veteran journalist provides an in-depth 
 investigation of black political power in a post-Civil Rights era of 
 promise and peril. She surveys the American political landscape and sheds 
 new light on the impact of Barack Obama's stunning presidential campaign, 
 while introducing the many emerging young African American politicians 
 forging bold new paths to political power.\n\nIfill argues that the black 
 political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way 
 to the generation of men and women who are the direct beneficiaries of the 
 struggle of the 1960s.  She offers incisive, detailed profiles of such 
 prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval 
 Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama, and also covers 
 up-and-coming figures from across the nation.  Drawing on interviews with 
 power brokers like Senator Obama, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, 
 Vernon Jordan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and many others, as well as her 
 own razor-sharp observations and analysis of such issues as generational 
 conflict and the "black enough" conundrum, Ifill shows why this is a 
 pivotal moment in American history.\n\nNeil Henry is a professor and dean 
 of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His career has 
 included 16 award-winning years at the Washington Post as a metro, 
 national, and investigative reporter, and a foreign correspondent based in 
 Africa. He has written for Newsweek, Mother Jones, and Smithsonian.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/06/18559233.php
SUMMARY:Gwen Ifill: The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
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