A veteran of public broadcast news, Gwen Ifill is the moderator and managing editor of Washington Week and senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. She frequently serves as moderator for national election debates, including the 2004 and 2008 Vice Presidential debates. Before working at PBS, she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC News. In The Breakthrough, Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama’s presidential victory in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and profiling other emerging African American politicians who are forging new paths to political power.

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