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Download or read book Moyers on America written by Bill Moyers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peabody Award–winning journalist shares stories and insights into our country and the crises we face in an “eloquent selection of . . . commentaries” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Millions of Americans have invited Bill Moyers into their homes over the years. With television programs covering topics from American history, politics, and religion to the role of media and the world of ideas, he has become one of America’s most trusted journalists. Now 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 a founding organizer 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 these experiences, he shares his unique understanding of American politics and an enduring faith in the nation’s promise and potential. Whether reflecting on today’s media climate, corporate scandals, or religious and political upheavals, Moyers on America recovers the hopes of the past to establish their relevance for the present. “Not only a good reporter . . . a first-rate storyteller.” —The Boston Globe
Book Synopsis Listening to America by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book Listening to America written by Bill D. Moyers and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Moyers on America written by Bill Moyers and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moyers on Democracy by : Bill Moyers
Download or read book Moyers on Democracy written by Bill Moyers and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People know Bill Moyers from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. 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. Moyers on Democracy takes on crucial issues such as economic inequality, our broken electoral process, our weakened independent press, and the despoiling of the earth we share as our common gift.
Book Synopsis Bill Moyers Journal by : Bill Moyers
Download or read book Bill Moyers Journal written by Bill Moyers and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to the Emmy Award–winning PBS® series—interviews with “an essential voice in our national conversation” (Brian Williams, MSNBC anchor). This “provocative” and “absorbing” (Star Tribune) companion book to Bill Moyer’s acclaimed PBS series invites readers into conversations with some of the most captivating voices on the scene today, in what Kirkus Reviews calls “a glittering array of discussions.” From Jon Stewart on politics and media to Michael Pollan on food, The Wire creator David Simon on the mean streets of our cities, James Cone and Shelby Steele on race in the age of Obama, Robert Bly and Nikki Giovanni on the power of poetry, Barbara Ehrenreich on the hard times of working Americans, and Karen Armstrong on faith and compassion, Moyer’s own intelligence and insight match that of his guests and their discussions animate many of the most salient issues of our time. 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 (Booklist). “In an era of much instant and ephemeral talk, it is a pleasurable thing to hold this ‘book of ideas.’” —Publishers Weekly “[Moyers] has always been about something beyond the moment. Or put another way, while everyone else in the media has been exploring topography, Moyers has been exploring geology.” —Los Angeles Times
Book Synopsis Welcome to Doomsday by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book Welcome to Doomsday written by Bill D. Moyers and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an investigation into the coupling of ideology and theology, in particular the intrusion of religion into political life, in America today. It is a passionate call to save the planet from the forces not only of greed and exploitation but from those who associate its destruction with a spiritual apocalypse.
Book Synopsis The Power of Myth by : Joseph Campbell
Download or read book The Power of Myth written by Joseph Campbell and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people—including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the “song of the universe, the music of the spheres.” With Bill Moyers, one of America’s most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant combination of intelligence and wit. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.
Book Synopsis A World of Ideas II by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book A World of Ideas II written by Bill D. Moyers and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another best-selling round of thought-provoking conversations with 29 men and women whose dynamic ideas and decisions are defining the present and charting the course of tomorrow's America. B & W photographs throughout
Book Synopsis The Secret Government by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book The Secret Government written by Bill D. Moyers and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adapted from two programs of the Public Broadcasting Service, mainly from one of this same title broadcast on November 4, 1987 ... excerpts from Mr. Moyers's 'Essay on Watergate, ' originally broadcast October 21, 1973"--Page [vii]Includes index. Bibliography: p. [123]-125.
Book Synopsis Road-book America by : Rowland A. Sherrill
Download or read book Road-book America written by Rowland A. Sherrill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Road-Book America, Rowland A. Sherrill explores how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of recent American texts, both fiction and nonfiction. Sketching the socially marginal, ingenuous, travelling characters common to old and new versions of the genre, Road-Book America is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of the "new American picaresque", exemplified by William Least HeatMoon's Blue Highways, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy, Bill Moyers's Listening to America, E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, and hundreds of other narratives published in the past four decades. Open, resilient, adaptable, and perennially hopeful, the protagonist of the new American picaresque follows a therapeutic path for the alienated modern self and lays the groundwork for spiritual renewal.
Download or read book Landslide written by Jonathan Darman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In politics, the man who takes the highest spot after a landslide is not standing on solid ground. In this riveting work of narrative nonfiction, Jonathan Darman tells the story of two giants of American politics, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan, and shows how, from 1963 to 1966, these two men—the same age, and driven by the same heroic ambitions—changed American politics forever. The liberal and the conservative. The deal-making arm twister and the cool communicator. The Texas rancher and the Hollywood star. Opposites in politics and style, Johnson and Reagan shared a defining impulse: to set forth a grand story of America, a story in which he could be the hero. In the tumultuous days after the Kennedy assassination, Johnson and Reagan each, in turn, seized the chance to offer the country a new vision for the future. Bringing to life their vivid personalities and the anxious mood of America in a radically transformative time, Darman shows how, in promising the impossible, Johnson and Reagan jointly dismantled the long American tradition of consensus politics and ushered in a new era of fracture. History comes to life in Darman’s vivid, fly-on-the wall storytelling. Even as Johnson publicly revels in his triumphs, we see him grow obsessed with dark forces he believes are out to destroy him, while his wife, Lady Bird, urges her husband to put aside his paranoia and see the world as it really is. And as the war in Vietnam threatens to overtake his presidency, we witness Johnson desperately struggling to compensate with ever more extravagant promises for his Great Society. On the other side of the country, Ronald Reagan, a fading actor years removed from his Hollywood glory, gradually turns toward a new career in California politics. We watch him delivering speeches to crowds who are desperate for a new leader. And we see him wielding his well-honed instinct for timing, waiting for Johnson’s majestic promises to prove empty before he steps back into the spotlight, on his long journey toward the presidency. From Johnson’s election in 1964, the greatest popular-vote landslide in American history, to the pivotal 1966 midterms, when Reagan burst forth onto the national stage, Landslide brings alive a country transformed—by riots, protests, the rise of television, the shattering of consensus—and the two towering personalities whose choices in those moments would reverberate through the country for decades to come. Praise for Landslide “Richly detailed . . . Landslide is a vivid retelling of a tumultuous three years in American history, and Mr. Darman captures in full the personalities and motives of two of the twentieth century’s most consequential politicians.”—The New York Times “Novel and even surprising . . . Landslide deftly reminds readers that Johnson and Reagan both trafficked in grandiose oratory and promoted utopian visions at odds with the social complexity of modern America.”—The Washington Post “Riveting . . . Darman portrays [Johnson and Reagan] as polar opposites of political attraction. . . . Animated by the artful insight that they were men of disappointment headed toward an appointment with history . . . A tale about myths and a nation that believed them, about a world of a half century ago now gone forever.”—The Boston Globe “Alert to the subtleties of politics and political history, Darman, a former correspondent for Newsweek, nimbly explores delusion and self-delusion at the highest levels.”—The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis A World of Ideas by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book A World of Ideas written by Bill D. Moyers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Language of Life by : Bill D. Moyers
Download or read book The Language of Life written by Bill D. Moyers and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the author's interviews with contemporary poets from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds discussing their work, lives, and creativity. Includes a selection of poems by each author.
Download or read book Doomsday America written by Bert Carsel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a phoenix rising from Roman ashes, America has had more than two hundred years to flourish on the world stage. In that time, it became a shining example of participatory democracy. Like Rome, however, America has become fat, lazy and an arrogant international bully - imposing its self-righteous views of right and wrong, good and evil on humankind. All is not right with this self-titled superpower. America finds itself rife with corporate and political corruption. It finds itself becoming increasingly despised and isolated from other nations. How soon before America joins the pantheon of civilizations that, like Rome, burned brightly into oblivion.
Book Synopsis The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century by : Peter Dreier
Download or read book The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century written by Peter Dreier and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological collection of brief biographies on important figures for social justice in American history, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Bob Dylan.
Book Synopsis America's Race Problem by : Paul Robert Lehman
Download or read book America's Race Problem written by Paul Robert Lehman and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses various aspects of race and its manifestations using both academic and secular references, and ultimately presents a challenge to America to recognize its race problem by examining its present-day perceptions, language, and behavior. Topics discussed include color, normalcy, racial priority, and slavery's legacy.
Book Synopsis Road-book America by : Rowland A. Sherrill
Download or read book Road-book America written by Rowland A. Sherrill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Road-Book America, Rowland A. Sherrill explores how the old picaresque tradition, embodied in such novels as Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, opens to include a number of recent American texts, both fiction and nonfiction. Sketching the socially marginal, ingenuous, travelling characters common to old and new versions of the genre, Road-Book America is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of the "new American picaresque", exemplified by William Least HeatMoon's Blue Highways, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, James Leo Herlihy's Midnight Cowboy, Bill Moyers's Listening to America, E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, and hundreds of other narratives published in the past four decades. Open, resilient, adaptable, and perennially hopeful, the protagonist of the new American picaresque follows a therapeutic path for the alienated modern self and lays the groundwork for spiritual renewal.
