Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country
- ISBN-10
- 0061264008
- ISBN-13
- 9780061264009
- Category
- History / United States / General
- Pages
- 342
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- Harper's Magazine Press
- Author
- Bill D. Moyers
Description
This record of the author's 13,000 mile journey across America last summer describes his impressions and reports on his meetings with "college presidents, student radicals, American Legionnaires, street people, union rebels, clergymen, drug addicts, black spokesmen, political candidates, unemployed executives, business, leaders, country doctors, hard-working cops, and ordinary citizens." Publisher's note.
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- 1982
- 596 pages
- Paperback
- Simon & Schuster
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