Featured Speaker - Eleanor Clift

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Eleanor Clift is a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine. She reports on the White House, presidential politics, and a variety of national issues. Her column, "Capitol Letter," is posted each week on Newsweek.com and MSNBC.com. Clift is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show, The McLaughlin Group. Clift's latest book, "Two Weeks of Life," tells the parallel stories of her husband's death at home with hospice alongside the national debate over the right to die of a young brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo (Basic Books 2008.) Clift is also the author of "Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment" (Wiley 2003) which tells the story of the long struggle for women to gain the right to vote. The book accompanied the HBO movie, "Iron Jawed Angels," starring Hillary Swank and Anjelica Houston.

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