As They Saw It

by Heffner, Richard D.

• ISBN13: 9780786713943
• ISBN10: 0786713941
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-07
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Richard D. Heffner is the producer and host of public television's prize-winning The Open Mindthe nation's longest-running public television interview programwhich he began in 1956. Now he draws on nearly fifty years of his broadcast conversations to form As They Saw It. Heffner has woven decades of provocative and thoughtful discussions with major figures from Malcolm X to Donald Rumsfeld, Gloria Steinem to Norman Mailer, Robert Caro to Jonas Salk, into a unique and authoritative mosaic exploring the major issues of our time. As such, the book is an account of the past fifty years as spoken by figures who made and lived our history. It is a treasury of never-before-published material from a dazzling array of public personsboth tremendous reading for the general public and a major new resource for students and historians alike.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Mario M. Cuomo	xi
Introduction by Richard D. Heffner	xiii
POWER & POLITICS
Robert Caro	3	(17)
Donald Rumsfeld	20	(9)
Hendrik Hertzberg	29	(6)
James MacGregor Burns	35	(10)
Mario Cuomo	45	(10)
William E Buckley, Jr.	55	(7)
George Soros	62	(16)
Simon Schama	78	(8)
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen	86	(14)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.	100	(8)
Derek Bok	108	(12)
Other Voices	120	(11)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
Averell Harriman and Sam Rosenman,
David Halberstam,
John Oakes,
Brian Urquhart,
Richard Viguerie,
Anthony Lewis,
Rudolph Giuliani
THE LAW
Alan Dershowitz	131	(8)
A. Leon Iligginbotham, Jr.	139	(6)
Louis Nizer	145	(5)
Rudolph Giuliani	150	(8)
Harold J. Rothwax	158	(9)
Linda Pairstein	167	(6)
William Kunstler	173	(5)
Sol Linowitz	178	(4)
Other Voices	182	(7)
Edward Bennett Williams,
Sol Wachtler,
Stephen C. Breyer
THE MEDIA
Bill Moyers	189	(16)
Dan Rather	205	(13)
Fred Friendly	218	(9)
Don Hewitt	227	(6)
Max Frankel	233	(14)
Nat Hentoff	247	(7)
William Safire	254	(8)
Ken Auletta	262	(9)
RACE
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Judge J. Waties Waring	271	(9)
Malcolm X, James Farmer, Wyatt Tee Walker, and Alan Morrison	280	(37)
John Hope Franklin	317	(6)
Kenneth Clark	323	(5)
Derrick Bell	328	(7)
Hugh B. Price	335	(8)
Other Voices	343	(6)
Stephen L. Carter,
Thurgood Marshall
WOMEN'S ISSUES
Gloria Steinem	349	(10)
Naomi Wolf	359	(9)
Gail Sheehy	368	(7)
Helen Gurley Brown	375	(6)
Betty Friedan	381	(7)
Other Voices	388	(5)
Elizabeth Holtzman,
Diane Feinstein
MEDICINE
Lewis Thomas	393	(10)
Oliver Sacks	403	(7)
Isadore Rosenfeld	410	(16)
Kathleen Foley	426	(13)
Robert Michels	439	(6)
Stuart M. Berger	445	(5)
Jonas Salk	450	(9)
Other Voices	459	(6)
Norman Cousins,
Peter D. Kramer,
B.F. Skinner
POPULAR CULTURE & THE AMERICAN SCENE
Robert Redford	465	(9)
Sissela Bok	474	(7)
Floyd Abrams	481	(9)
Norman Podhoretz	490	(11)
Nicholas Lemann	501	(8)
David Brown	509	(5)
Oliver Stone	514	(11)
Other Voices	525
Max Lerner,
Harold Evans,
Robert McGuire,
Dr. Benjamin Spock,
Dr Ruth Westheimer,
Norman Mailer,
Howard Fast,
Ralph Reed,
Allan Bloom,
Howard Gardner,
Arthur Levine,
Henry Grunwald,
Daniel Patrick Moynihan