Bill Moyers Journal

by Moyers, Bill D.; Winship, Michael; Holland, Robin

• ISBN13: 9781595587732
• ISBN10: 159558773X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-03
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

One of the most highly rated public affairs programmes on American television, Bill Moyers' Journal drew up to two million weekly viewers from 2007 to 2010. With incisive, morally engaging text, this stunning companion brings Moyers' groundbreaking work to the page. Featuring extensive new commentary from Bill Moyers, it is an unparalleled guide to the debates, the cultural currents and above all the fascinating people that have so powerfully shaped today's world.

Author Biography

Bill Moyers was a founding organizer of the Peace Corps, a senior White House assistant and press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson from 1963 until 1967, the publisher of Newsday a senior news analyst for CBS News, and the producer of groundbreaking series for public television. He is the winner of more than thirty-five Emmy Awards, nine Peabody Awards, and a National Academy of Arts Sciences Lifetime Achievement Award. Among his bestselling books are Listening to America, A World of Ides, The Power of Myth (with Joseph Campbell), and Moyers on America. He lives in New York City and hosts a weekly series. Moyers Company.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Jon Stewart	p. 1
Michael Pollan	p. 9
Louise Erdrich	p. 21
Nikki Giovanni	p. 32
Andrew Bacevich	p. 47
Robert Wright	p. 62
David Simon	p. 75
Victor Gold	p. 89
Nell Painter	p. 96
Jim Hightower	p. 101
Richard Goldstone	p. 110
Robert Bly	p. 127
Jeremy Scahill	p. 140
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot	p. 160
John Lithgow	p. 172
William Greider	p. 185
Karen Armstrong	p. 196
Ross Douthat and Mickey Edwards	p. 206
Grace Lee Boggs	p. 225
James K. Galbraith	p. 233
Douglas Blackmon	p. 246
Sam Tanenhaus	p. 254
Maxine Hong Kingston	p. 264
E.O.Wilson	p. 274
Simon Johnson	p. 285
Holly Sklar	p. 295
Jane Goodall	p. 302
James Cone	p. 316
David Boies and Ted Olson	p. 328
Wendell Potter	p. 342
Benjamin Barber	p. 355
Margaret Flowers	p. 364
Philippe Sands	p. 373
Howard Zinn	p. 385
Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson	p. 396
Thomas Cahill	p. 415
Shelby Steele	p. 428
Robert Kaiser	p. 439
Barbara Ehrenreich	p. 449
Martín Espada	p. 455
John Grisham	p. 462
Susan Jacoby	p. 471
JimYong Kim	p. 481
W.S. Merwin	p. 491
Mike Davis	p. 507
Reverend Jeremiah Wright	p. 518
Barry Lopez	p. 538
Select Bibliography of the Guests Interviewed	p. 547
Permissions	p. 557
Index	p. 559
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