at the 2012 Washington & Jefferson College Energy Summit, where the Washington & Jefferson College Energy Index was unveiled. Contributing to the anthology Our American Story (2019), Clift addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative and focused on America as a social movement, writing, "[S]ocial movements are America's story, and they're my story as a woman born in the middle of the last century whose life was made measurably better amid these broad strokes of history." Honors Hoover Institution William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellow September 16–22, 2002 Personal life Clift married William Brooks Clift Jr. (1919–1986), the older brother of actor Montgomery Clift, in 1964; they had three sons before divorcing in 1981. In 1989, Clift married Tom Brazaitis, a Washington columnist for The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. They remained together until his death from kidney cancer in 2005. Bibliography Eleanor Clift and Matthew Spieler (2012). Selecting a President. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. References Further reading Clift, Eleanor, "The Magazine That Was: Eleanor Clift on Her 50 Years at Newsweek", Newsweek, September 27, 2013 Clift, Eleanor, "The White House", newsweekmemories.org website External links Eleanor Clift official website 1940 births Living people American columnists American women columnists American political commentators American political writers American people of German descent Television personalities from New York City American women television personalities Hoover Institution Edwards Media Fellows Hunter College alumni Newsweek people People from Brooklyn People from Jackson Heights, Queens