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Individual Author Record

General Information

Name:  Elizabeth Brackett  

Pen Name: None

Genre: Non-Fiction

Audience: Adult;

Born:

-- Elizabeth Brackett on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=elizabeth+brackett

Illinois Connection

Elizabeth works for WTTW, a PBS station in Chicago.

Biographical and Professional Information

She is a winner of the prestigious Peabody Award for her political reporting, as well as a National Emmy. A lifetime Chicagoan, she has developed access to news and inside sources in all walks of life throughout Illinois. Few are the political and civic leaders she has not reached and interviewed. Along with her national awards, she has garnered three Midwest Emmy Awards and two Peter Lisagor Awards for her television reporting from the Midwest.

Published Works Expand for more information

Titles At Your Library

Pay to Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Sideshow
ISBN: 1566638348

Ivan R. Dee. 2009

Weeks after President Barack Obama's remarkable victory, the nation was shocked to learn that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich had been arrested at his home by the FBI. There are allegations that Blago had tried to sell Obama's soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat for cash. This effort appeared to be only the latest in a cascade of corruption that prompted U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to charge the governor with actions that would make Lincoln roll over in his grave. In Pay to Play, Elizabeth Brackett, award-winning correspondent in the political realm for PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, uncovers new details as she goes behind the story of the first governor to be impeached by the Illinois legislature. All the time tracing the background of corruption in Illinois politics and its implications for state government executive branches across the country, she tells precisely how Blagojevich's personal biography and his political upbringing paved the way for his reckless fall what the dilemma of selecting replacement senators means for other states what secrets the federal trial of the governor is likely to produce why Roland Burris was selected for the U.S. Senate seat for Illinois and how a man named Obama could emerge with integrity from the swill of this same political environment.

Speaking Engagements

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