The founder and director of the renowned Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, Larry J. Sabato has appeared on national television and radio programs including 60 Minutes , Today, Hardball , and Nightline. A Rhodes scholar, he received his doctorate in politics from Oxford, and has been at UVA since 1978. The author of countless articles and some twenty books, most recently A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Dynamic Proposals to Reshape the Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country , he co-anchored the BBC's coverage of the 2006 election. In 2002, the University of Virginia gave him its highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award.