A "Breakthrough"

Regardless of which candidate you supported in yesterday's presidential election, today we all woke up to an historic moment: Our President-Elect, Senator Barack Obama, is the first African-American voted into our nation's highest office.

Some of the most fun we've all had in the months leading up to the election has been from the nation's comics, who created dead-on impersonations of national figures. One of those was Queen Latifah, whose performance on SNL as vice-presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill (our very own Gwen Ifill!) was the perfect counterpoint to Tina Fey's wackily egotistic Sarah Palin. (Ifill responded on "Meet the Press.")

Latifah-as-Ifill "shilled" for The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, riffing that her book would be published on Election Day. Alas, it won't be out until January. Timing is everything, after all. But you can pre-order it!

Today, Ifill looks not just prescient, but relevant. In an era of change, that's key. I predict strong sales, and I hope we'll be able to feature Ifill here on Author, Author! too...