Dan Rather is the Emmy Award-winning anchor and managing editor of The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, anchor of the prime-time news program, 48 Hours and co-host of CBS News' 60 Minutes II. He has defined the role of the modern anchor by traveling to where the news is made -- Bosnia, Somalia, the Berlin Wall, Iraq, Haiti -- giving his broadcasts greater depth and perspective. He has reported on virtually every aspect of American politics and has interviewed every U.S. president from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton and international leaders including Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin. A prolific author, Rather's latest book is an abridgment of Mark Sullivan's landmark popular history, Our Times: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century.
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