One of the most respected journalists in America shares, for the first time, his own personal beliefs on the political and moral state of the country, using his years of experience to present his unique viewpoint and understanding of the world today. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. In this collection of speeches, Moyers celebrates the promise of American democracy and offers a passionate defense of its principles of fairness and justice.
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...
With extensive commentary from Moyers, marked by his customary “respect, intelligence, curiosity, humor, and graciousness,” here are the debates; cultural currents; and, above all, lively minds that shape the conversation of democracy ...
In a collection of speeches, the broadcaster shares his thoughts on the state of America, the betrayal of the nation's democratic ideals by the Bush administration, and the need to reconnect with our constitutional principles and history of ...
The well-respected public television journalist presents a series of one-on-one interviews with leading scientists, writers, artists, philosophers, and historians that outline the pressing problems America will face in the future
At last, the paperback edition of the monumental best-seller (almost half a million copies in print!) that has changed the way Americans think about sickness and health -- the companion volume to the landmark PBS series of the same name.
Critiques the viewpoint among many Christians that wars and pollution are necessary precursors to the Rapture, claiming that it results in an attitude of indifference toward efforts to improve the natural environment.
Interviews with Chinua Achebe, Isaac Asimov, Mary Catherine Bateson, Robert Bellah, Peter Berger, Sissela Bok, T. Berry Brazelton, James MacGregor Burns, Noam Chomsky, F. Forrester Church, Henry Steele Commager, E.L....
The hearings pitted the bushy-browed McCarthy and his chief counsel, the vulpine Roy Cohn, against the U.S. Army and its special outside counsel, the well-mannered Joseph Welch. The most famous sound bite of the hearings came after ...
Thomas G. Paterson and J. Garry Clifford, America Ascendant (Lexington, Mass., 1995), p. 87. 10. U.S. Department of Commerce, Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1950, table 998, p. 839. II. Kennedy, Rise and Fall, p. 358. 12.