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Dan Rather was anchor and managing editor for the CBS Evening News for 24 years, and is currently a correspondent for 60 Minutes. Since 1962, when Rather first joined CBS News, he has handled some of the most challenging assignments in journalism. His day-to-day commitment to substantive, fair and accurate news reporting and his tough, active style have earned him a position of respect among his peers and the public.

Often referred to as "the hardest working man in broadcast journalism," Rather lives up to the description. His recently published seventh book, The American Dream, chronicles the stories of a wide cross-section of Americans, describing how they achieved their versions of the American dream.

In 2002 and 2003, the war on terrorism has taken him to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel. In February 2003, Rather secured the most sought-after interview in the world: an exclusive one-on-one with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the first the Iraqi leader had conducted with an American journalist since 1991. Rather also reported from Kabul on the United States' effort to oust the Taliban and from Jerusalem and the West Bank during the largest Israeli military action in two decades.

He gained special notice for his live anchoring of CBS News' coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and his around-the-clock reporting in the days that followed. In the weeks after 9/11, Rather filed reports from Ground Zero and on the attacks' aftermath in New York and the nation for the prime-time news magazine 48 Hours.

Rather is a prolific writer. In addition to The American Dream, he is the author of Deadlines and Datelines, published in 1999, The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist (1994), I Remember (1991), The Camera Never Blinks (1977) and The Palace Guard (1974). He also abridged Mark Sullivan's landmark popular history, Our Times: America at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century. He continues to be a much-sought-after contributor to many of the top newspapers and magazines in the country and speaks out frequently on journalistic ethics.