Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, covering Congress, politics and public policy. She also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, Roberts has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
She is the author of The New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history, and Founding Mothers, which explores the wives, daughters, philosophers and others who influenced the men behind the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.