Chuck Todd is NBC News political director, chief White House correspondent for NBC, and a contributing editor to ""Meet the Press"". He also serves as NBC News' on-air political analyst for ""NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams,"" ""Today,"" ""Meet the Press,"" and such MSNBC programs as ""Morning Joe,"" and ""Hardball with Chris Matthews."" Before joining NBC News, Todd was editor-in-chief of National Journal's ""The Hotline,"" Washington's premier daily briefing on America politics. He has also written Op-Ed pieces for The New York Times and the Washington Post and for the Atlantic Monthly, where he is a contributing editor. He teaches a graduate political communications course at Johns Hopkins University.Sheldon Gawiser is NBC director of elections; he heads the NBC News election decision team in charge of making projections and overseeing news analysis of the exit polls. He was a founder of the NBC/Associated Press Poll and is a trustee of the National Council on Public Polls. Dr. Gawiser, in addition to being a pollster extraordinaire, is an Emmy nominated producer and winner of a special Emmy for his work on September 11th. He is author of five books and numerous articles on public opinion polling and elections, including A Journalist's Guide to Public Opinion Polls (Praeger, 1994).
'Quoting Death in Early Modern England is convincing about the significance of epitaphs in early modern texts... Yet the strength of the book is in its thorough and clear treatment of a subject less tangential than a reader may first suspect.' - Jack Heller, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature & Culture 'This is a stimulating exploration of a neglected genre and Newstok is an adroit commentator on the emergence and circulation of the early modern epitaph.' - Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education 'This lively and thought-provoking book...is an ambitious and largely successful study, encouraging us to understand not merely how Renaissance epitaphs transcended their traditional Christian commemorative functions, but how a variety of concerns with epitaphic closure were intimately related to an emergent idea of authorship itself. - Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement 'The very last part of the book ... is liberated from notes, and the reader can clearly follow and appreciate Newstok's contentions... he eloquently expresses all that one would seek of the nature and purpose of an epitaph. The book is attractively bound and presented, with full references and an extensive bibliography.' - Rosemary Greentree, Parergon