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Moyers On America (Paperback)

By: Bill Moyers (Author) and Julie Leininger Pycior (Editor)


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Bill Moyers's vision for America in this crucial election year.
"Our nation can no more survive as half democracy and half oligarchy than it could survive 'half slave and half free.'—from Moyers on America
Over the years millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes. His television programs—covering topics ranging from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas—have made him one of America's most recognized and honored journalists. In these pages, Moyers presents, for the first time, a powerful statement of his own personal beliefs—political and moral. Combining illuminating forays into American history with candid comments on today's politics, Moyers delivers perceptive and trenchant insights into the American experience.
From his early years as a Texas journalist to his role as one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, top assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, publisher of Newsday, senior correspondent and analyst for CBS News, and producer of many of public television's groundbreaking series, Moyers has been actively engaged in some of the most volatile episodes of the past fifty years. Drawing from this practical experience, he demonstrates a unique understanding of how American politics works and an enduring faith in the nation's promises and possibilities. Whether reflecting on today's climate of megamedia concentration, rampant corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present.

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Known primarily as a broadcast journalist whose many productions on PBS set a high standard, gained a wide audience, and earned many Emmy awards, Bill Moyers has also been a newspaperman, publisher, public servant, and author of books. (His 1972 LISTENING TO AMERICA was a groundbreaking search for the essence of this country.) In MOYERS ON AMERICA, he collects his speeches and writings looking back on a 50-year career, with his finger to the wind to sense the direction this country is taking--not a good one, in his opinion. Organized under four sections, the pieces in MOYERS ON AMERICA reflect a changed and changing country. "America Now" questions the general rightward shift in American politics, including the decision to go to war after 9/11. "The Soul of Democracy" includes thoughts about the separation of church and state, as well as an essay on why Moyers chooses to wear a flag pin on his lapel. In "The Media" he recalls his experiences as a newspaperman, looking at how the business has changed both for the good (more coverage of people) and bad (the stranglehold of corporate influence), with a special plea for the survival of public television. And in "Looking Back" he reflects on the hard life his father lived as well as his own feeling about growing older. Never nostalgic, Moyers's essays are usually grounded in a particular place and time, and deal with actual people, as they reflect his experiences and his progressive viewpoint.



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